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Searching
I totally forgot to include this portion in the documentation; I'm sorry.

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' (yes, it must be a capital E followed by a capital N followd by a colon), and you will get any results that have 'hair' in the English meanings.
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.

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