Feature Request: Combined lookup in both languages about dictionary HOT 10 OPEN

I think that would be really annoying if it switched back and forth between languages while typing if it's a prefix appearing a lot in both languages. Especially when it only saves a single button press it seems to me there is high risk that will be an overall usability decrease.

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If it appears in both language then there is no need to switch. As proposed, just in case the search term is not found in the left language. There cannot be a case where the a term is not found in English and then found after adding one or more letters.

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I thought of "found" as in "exact match", not "there are words with that prefix".
Yes, with the latter definition this might work well enough. Not entirely sure about the confusion factor though.

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If this behaviour was optional and non-standard, I'd have to blame myself for being confused after activating it.

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I have a strong preference for adding features that don't need to go behind an option. Among other things because a large number of people will never notice them, but also because it means adding new strings that probably won't get translated any time soon and will stick out like a sore thumb :) .

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OK, that makes sense.

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Btw when looking up multiple words the search actually does work as a filter.
However I think there is some weird behaviour in that mode and it is a bit slow, so I don't really want the code to rely too much on it.
I also just added some code that when a word is shared from another application it searches all dictionaries and indices for a best match. If it works well (which I am not too sure about), this might be one approach to extend as well.
It is likely that either way the choice will be between real-time updates or more intelligence though so any improvements here will probably involve some UI/usability challenges.

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What is a "best match"? If it doesn't search for similar words the search term matches or not, right?
I didn't understand your last sentence.

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I haven't decided what "best match" will mean long-term, currently it means:

• if there is one or more exact matches (there could be many dictionaries containing that word, especially as the search is done without distinguishing accents etc) the first dictionary in the order as configured in the dictionary manager is used.
• if there is no exact match, the best prefix match (first n characters matching) is used, if at least 3 characters match.

With the last sentence I (mostly) meant: searching all dictionaries this way takes quite some time. So if I were to add this method of searching, it probably would not be possible to always show the latest match while typing like the app currently does.

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1. OK, sounds reasonable. Could the search be more selective if accents are given and more general if not?
2. I also assume multiple lookup will take some time. Hence that shouldn't be the default action on startup for the clipboard content as it is in the PONS/Langenscheidt app.
3. I wonder in which scenario a search term can be "sent" to QuickDic. For me it's usually copying a word from a website.

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