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node-migemo

This is a re-implementation of migemo in NodeJS. Migemo is a tool for generating regular expressions for Japanese based on romaji input. Wapuro style input (and therefore most of Kunreishiki and Hepburn) is supported.

Unlike other migemos, the dictionary is based on Edict2, not SKK, which solves some problems but creates others.

To start using it right away, install together with searchy.

npm install -g migemo searchy

License

The code I have written is released under the WTFPL, do as you like. However, please note the dictionary file is based on edict2 and subject to its terms. I understand this as basically CC-BY-SA-3.0, but please see here.

Other Versions

There are many other implementations of migemo. Besides the original Ruby version you may also be interested in this browser-friendly JS version.

For reference here are the other implementations I'm aware of:

todesking js version
Old River js version
c/migemo
XUL/Migemo for Firefox & Thunderbird
Migemo for Chrome

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node-migemo's Issues

split dictionary & lazy load

Currently the dictionary is one big json file and takes a few seconds to load, creating a noticeable delay. Splitting it in to many files (perhaps even one per kana) and lazy loading as required could remove or at least reduce the delay and make this suitable for non-interactive use (like with running grep repeatedly).

add incremental search at least as an option

In other migemos typically partial searches match full words, for example "toukyo" will match "東京". The obvious way to do this is by making the dictionary a recursive tree; this makes it slower (and increases spurious matches) but can be handy.