MED Open Search 2.2.3
MED Open Search is a standalone Mac app for easier, faster searching of the Middle English Dictionary. It has been tested on an M1 MacBook Air. If your Mac is different, let me know if you have any trouble.
New in 2.2.3:
- The results page is a bit cleaner
- You can now choose which folder to write your results page to
The zip file includes the app, which you can put in your app folder like any other app. It also includes MED Open Click.user.js, which is a userscript you can run with a userscript manager like Tampermonkey to provide more functionality.
Usage: Just double-click the app, and a dialog box will appear, asking you to select a directory to write your results page into.
Then, you'll get another dialog box, where you can type the word you want to look up.
Type the word you are searching, choose a search type if necessary, and hit the enter/return key. In a moment, a web page will load.
Then click through to the MED page of your choice.
If you leave the app open, you can search over and over and it won't ask you to choose a directory until you quit and relaunch the app next time.
If you want the MED pages to open with all of the quotations actually showing, use MED Open Click.user.js with a userscript manager for your browser. (I use Userscripts with Safari.) The script is included in the zip file for this app.
