While working on the thesis I discovered the beauty of ausing a thesaurus. I used to go to http://thesaurus.reference.com/ which has a good selection of synonims, but I disliked having to switch contexts from the document on which I am working. Since I use vi i tried the technique for enabling the thesaurus in vi presented here but was not completely sattisfied with the free thesaurus I found.

Finally I discovered the perfect solution: the dictionary application of OS X can be invoked from some text editors by pressing CTRL+COMMAND+D. The problem is that it defaults to dictionary not thesaurus, so normally you get the definition and then you have to explicitly choose the thesaurus. To change this you have to go to the preferences panel of the dictionary application switch the order of the dictionaries, and make thesaurus the first. Once this is done,

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