software to jump to url based on selected word

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I am looking for software which, upon a special key combo, will look at the
word under the cursor (regardless of what Windows program you are in)
and then jump to a url based on that word. The software would have
a method of associating words with urls, probably a table or
possibly an algorithm which turns the word into a url.

For example, the words in the table might be all the keywords
in a particular programming language, e.g. "while". If one is
in an arbitrary editor, displaying some source code, and positioned
over a keyword it would take you to the online manual page for
that statement when you pressed the special key combo.

The application would have to support a few hundred
such keywords but would _not_ have to support a vocabulary
with tens of thousands such as all of English.

Does this exist?
 
Grod said:
I am looking for software which, upon a special key combo, will look at the
word under the cursor (regardless of what Windows program you are in)
and then jump to a url based on that word. The software would have
a method of associating words with urls, probably a table or
possibly an algorithm which turns the word into a url.

For example, the words in the table might be all the keywords
in a particular programming language, e.g. "while". If one is
in an arbitrary editor, displaying some source code, and positioned
over a keyword it would take you to the online manual page for
that statement when you pressed the special key combo.

The application would have to support a few hundred
such keywords but would _not_ have to support a vocabulary
with tens of thousands such as all of English.

Does this exist?

I'm not aware of anything like this, but..... might be a thought for one of
us developers in the future perhaps?

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

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