JLookUp Documetation

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Searching: I totally forgot to include this portion in the earlier documentations; I'm sorry.

Use the IME
The IME basically takes what you type and turns it into Japanese text. It's just like the Windows IME (but with no kanji support). So, to turn it on/off, press CAPSLOCK.

Any text that is Japanese will be searched for in Japanese Search mode.
Any text that is English will be searched for in English Search mode.

Japanse-to-English
To search for text (Japanese-->English), just type in the text that you want to search for. If you want to search for 'nani', then just type in 'nani' and results meaning 'what' will appear.
NOTE: This search is subject to the search rules which can be chosen by clicking on buttons in the Search Window's toolbar. See that section of the documentation for more.

Searching Wildcards
You can use the following wildcards when searching:
_ searches for anything at all (including nothing) at that spot. This is just like the standard '*' in searches.
? searches for any one character at that spot.

English-to-Japanse
To search for text (English-->Japanese), just type 'EN:' followed by the English word that you want to search for. If you want to search for 'hair', then just type 'EN:hair', and you will get any results that have 'hair' in the English meanings.
The English searches are like Google searches. Thus, you can search for:
EN: hair
EN: long hair
EN: really "long hair"
Now, if you get tired of getting tons of results, you can do an Exact Search. This means that if you type: EN:"hair" you will get ONLY the results meaning 'hair'. Period. However, this is not an exact science, but I did work pretty hard to get it to work well.
To get this working, you must have the quotes RIGHT AFTER the colon. Thus,
EN: "hair"
will not give you what you want.

NOTE: English searches are also bound by the search rules, but more loosely. Also, for memory and format reasons, I have not yet enabled wildcards with English searches.
NOTE: English searches also take longer than the normal Japanese searches.

Also
The way that EDICT entries are stored allows you to do one extra thing with English-->Japanese searches.
If you type in 'EN:(exp)', it will return all entries that are expressions. See 'partsofspeech.jlf' for the rest.

As of 1.0.5, you still CANNOT mix English and Japanese searches. That means that you CANNOT search for:
* Words that start with the Japanse 'ka' and have English meanings of 'hair'.
Searches like that are just not supported yet, but I hope to implement them in the future.