use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::FormatText;
use WWW::Mechanize;

main( @ARGV );
exit;

sub main {
    initialize( @_ );

    for ( @_ ) {
        my $def =
            HTML::FormatText->format_string(
                WebClient::Dict_org::define( $_ ) );
        $def =~ s/\A.+-{30,}[\r\n]+(.+)^\s*-{30,}.+/$1/ms;
        print $def;
    }

    1;
}

sub initialize {
    $| = 1;

    1;
}

package WebClient::Dict_org;
use WWW::Mechanize;

our $DEFAULT_URL; INIT { $DEFAULT_URL = 'http://dict.org' }

sub define { site_define( $DEFAULT_URL, @_ ) }
sub site_define {
    my $site = shift;
    my $word = shift;

    my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new;
    $browser->get( $site );
    $browser->set_visible( $word );
    $browser->click;

    $browser->content;
}

__END__

=pod

=head1 NAME

dict - a simple client for http://dict.org

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 dict insufflation

 (define-word "insufflation")

 C-x d

=head1 EMACS BINDING

Emacs is a great place to bind all sorts things together and this is
no exception. Add this to your .emacs file to create the function
DEFINE-WORD. If you don't give it a word then it will attempt to
define whatever word is currently under your point.

 (defun define-word (input-word)
   "Define a word using http://dict.org."
   (interactive "MWord to define: ")
   (let ((buf (generate-new-buffer "*dict*"))
         (word (if (> (length input-word) 0)
                   input-word
                 (current-word))))
     (shell-command (concat "~/bin/dict " word) buf)
     buf))

The following command binds C-x d to the function.

 (global-set-key "\C-xd" 'define-word)

=end
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