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[Feature Request] hover mouse and press key to lookup

Open sp4050 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Many times it is not possible to double click the word. In addition to double click, option to hover the mouse over word and press something e.g. Ctrl/Alt + q/z is what I think will make it super easy.

sp4050 avatar Dec 24 '20 18:12 sp4050

I already have added trigger key, which you can turn on and choose trigger key. After that you need to press that trigger key (Cmd/Alt/Shift/Ctrl) along with double click to show the meaning.

Will this solve your purpose?

Also can you give example when it is not possible to double click the word?

meetDeveloper avatar Jan 03 '21 10:01 meetDeveloper

Let me give you examples where double click is an issue because that is the main reason I requested feature (which I had used in other dictionary)

  • When the sentence is hyperlink e.g. news headlines and many other lines in the paragraph.
  • When clicks are connected to other actions e.g. in twitter if you click a word on a tweet, it will expand the tweet rather than selecting word which is annoying. Probably I browse such pages more often than others where clicks trigger other actions rather than selecting word, which I don’t want. Thank you for what you do!

sp4050 avatar Jan 19 '21 16:01 sp4050