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Dict phrase behavior #433
Description
So, dict phrase looks like:
hot - rod s=hotrod
But in parse tree, suggested node is _phrase, not _hotrod.
Also, input text such as HOT-3
matches the hot - rod phrase, which is not what I want or expect.
Feature.
Low priority.
@dehilsterlexis
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dehilsterlexis commentedon May 21, 2023
@amnonma did you try it with a backslash in front of the hyphen?
amnonma commentedon May 21, 2023
@dehilsterlexis
Ok, reentered VSCode just now.
With backslash:
This did not work
splurk - glurk s=flimxx
This DID work
motor - carrier s=truck
Without backslash, BOTH WORK.
The only difference I see is that "motor", "carrier" and "truck" are known, while "splurk" and "glurk" "fimxx" are not.
Merge pull request #786 from VisualText/feature/dict-shape-433
ddehilster commentedon Oct 15, 2026
Fixed in #786 (engine 4.2.30, not yet tagged). The symptoms reported here no longer happen on master:
hot - rod s=hotrodbuilds_hotrod,HOT-3doesn't match, and\-works for unknown words too. A worse bug turned up while checking it, and that is now fixed: a .dict line with no attributes (e.g.license plate) stopped the file being read, silently dropping every entry after it. Bare entries now load (a phrase becomes_phrase), and a malformed line is reported and skipped. Docs: VisualText/visualtext-files#242.