ref: 739e15c17839ae1bf03f9a27ed170f3bcb280430
parent: fe14f67c92704dc608eff7453150448d4ad7c0d5
author: rodri <[email protected]>
date: Sun Jul 10 08:54:09 EDT 2022
ktrans(1): documented $jisho and made some improvements. (thanks to Kenji Okamoto, cinap, BurnZez, romi and Aaron for your work on ktrans!)
--- a/sys/man/1/ktrans
+++ b/sys/man/1/ktrans
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.B ctl-n
Japanese hiragana: interpret lower-case letters as a Hepburn
representation of hiragana. In this mode, typing ctl-\\ looks up the
-last `word' in a hiragana-kanji dictionary and replaces it.
+last `word' in a kana-kanji dictionary and replaces it.
Subsequent ctl-\\ characters cycle through the possibilities. A word
is the longest immediately preceding unbroken string of hiragana
characters.
@@ -28,15 +28,14 @@
Japanese katakana.
.TP
.B ctl-l
-If you want to put the hiragana not converted, you can type.
+If you want to put the hiragana without modification.
.TP
.B ctl-x
-Read kana-kanji conversion dictionary once more, and renews it. This
-will be convenient when you updated kana-kanji conversion dictionary
-on such acme editor.In default, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary
-is read once at beginning and to make a hashed table, which will be
-arranged so that the last selected candidate will be the first
-candidate for later search.
+Reload the in-memory kana-kanji conversion dictionary (kanji jisho).
+This is so you can update the kanji jisho on-the-fly. By default, the
+kanji jisho is read once at the beginning, to make a hash table, which
+will be arranged so that the last selected candidate will be the first
+candidate for later searches.
.TP
.B ctl-r
Russian: interpret letters as Cyrillic; the transliteration is mostly
@@ -62,7 +61,10 @@
.B ctl-s
Korean.
.PP
-To use it you have to run it before a rio session. You can put it on your $home/lib/profile like:
+To use
+.I ktrans
+you have to run it before a rio session. You can put it on your
+$home/lib/profile like:
.EX
...
ktrans
@@ -73,6 +75,13 @@
.EX
% @{ktrans; rio}.EE
+.PP
+The default location of the kanji jisho is
+.LR /lib/kanji.jisho .
+You can change that by means of the
+.L $jisho
+environment variable, so you can keep a customized version of the
+dictionary that fits your personal needs.
.PP
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/ktrans