Re: dict not piping through less/pager

Gary Johnson wrote:
but since I don't have dict installed on any systems here, I Googled for
"man dict". One of the man pages said that 'pager' may be set in a
configuration file, which may be ~/.dictrc or /etc/dict.conf. Ubuntu
may not specify a pager for dict. Adding the following line
your own ~/.dictrc should fix the problem.

pager less

I tried that among other things to ~/.dictrc and i keep getting an error:
$dict apple
$~/.dictrc:1: syntax error, unexpected TOKEN_STRING, expecting TOKEN_SERVER
$~/.dictrc:1: pager less
$~/.dictrc:1: ^^^^^
dict (yyerror): parse error

'man' is your friend.

Not always; Option --pager is now depricated in dict.

Any other suggestions?

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