dictionary dream (was [Re: finding the name of the displayed card of stack foo?] )

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sun Jun 16 08:00:31 EDT 2013


Hi Jacques,

BvG Docu provides full-text search. That should be pretty close to your 
dream :-)
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On 6/16/2013 13:53, Jacques Hausser wrote:
> Yes, that's a problem when intuition doesn't correspond to the index of the dictionary… it would be interesting to develop a "maybe you're thinking of…" algorithm for the dictionary ( without  clogging the language with synonyms), for example by redirecting toward "real" commands such searches as "fill field "xxx" with…", "display myText in field…", "erase line 1 of field "xxx" ", and so on. It could be an online process contributed by the users: I was trying to find: (intuitive command) and finally discovered it was: (existing command).
> Unfortunately that's far, far over my technical competences to start something like that. It's probably a big overlap with "openLanguage" anyway.
>
> Jacques
>
> Le 16 juin 2013 à 02:03, "Dr. Hawkins" <dochawk at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Mark Schonewille
>> <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> put the short name of the current card of stack "foo"
>>
>> Ahh.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Duh.
>>
>> I went through front, current, top, visible . . .
>>




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