Adding a new editorAction for Orion

In case you have not heard it yet, Orion is the new Web IDE from Eclipse. In a blog entry introducing Orion, I said that this one is going to stand out from the crowd and going to rule the world. Why can't the other Web IDEs do that? Because, Orion, walking in the path of Eclipse, will provide the ability to customize and extend. Now with Orion 0.2 M5, you can extend the editor and provide your own editorAction. This is the first and only "extension point" available, but for sure, more will follow.

For this tip, we are going to add a Dictionary look up action to the editor. The action will open up Google Dictionary in a popup window for the selected text in the editor. Yes, popup windows are so ugly, and a div would be lot better, I'll do the beautification later, so for now disable your popup blockers.

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