NAME

       ding - dictionary lookup program for Unix

SYNOPSIS

       ding [options] [phrase]

DESCRIPTION

       ding  is  a  dictionary lookup program for X Windows/Unix. It comes with a German-English dictionary with
       about 345,000 entries.

       It is based on Tk version >= 8.3 and uses the agrep(1) or egrep(1) tools for searching.

       In addition to this ding can also search using ispell(1) and dict(1).

       It has many configuration options, such as search preferences, interface language  (English  or  German),
       colors. It has history and help functions and comes with useful key and mouse bindings for quick and easy
       lookups.

       If  you enter some word or phrase as command line argument, ding will start up with a translation of this
       word/phrase.

OPTIONS

       -x, --selection
              Start searching for selected word (X selection).

       -m, --mini
              Start with minimal size (search form only).

       -r, --remote
              Start search in an already running program.

       -R, --remote-new
              Start search in an already running program or start a new program.

       --noconf
              Do not save preferences

       -D #, --debug #
              Start with debug output, # = number (1..15).

USAGE

       It's very simple: Start ding (via KDE menu "Tools" or via command  line),  type  in  search  word,  press
       ENTER,  read  results.  Search  further by double-clicking a word, or select a word in another window and
       drop it by clicking with mouse button 2 over the "ding  window".  For  further  information  consult  the
       program help by pressing F1.

SEE ALSO

       agrep(1), egrep(1), ispell(1), ding(1).
       http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/
       /usr/share/doc/ding/html/index.html

AUTHOR

       ding was written by Frank Richter <frank.richter@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>.

       This  manual  page was written by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

Debian Project                                    October 2005                                           DING(1)