First, it showed nothing but I had to go to the dictionary and download it but now I can't lookup things that aren't in the dictionary, that would previously result in it showing me a Wikipedia page.
Any way to fix this?
MacOS – Three finger tap lookup no longer show Wikipedia pages since upgrading to Sierra
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The only way I could get this to work is by creating a new service that looks up the word and than tells Dictionary.app to use the "all" filter.
- Open /Applications/Automator.app and select the services template
- in the top right part of the screen, you should see that the default input parameters Automator has selected ("Service receives selected text in any application") is just what you want
- in the left hand search field, search for an Action called "Run Applescript" and drag it into your workflow
replace the part "(* Your script goes here *)" with the following Applescript, and than choose File->Save. Automator will ask you for a name for your new service (eg. "lookup in all dictionaries" and from that moment on, your service will be available in all applications.
set dictLocation to "dict:///" & input open location dictLocation tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dictionary" to keystroke "0" using command down(optional) You might also want to define a shortcut for you new service by going into "System Preferences">"Keyboard">"Keyboard Shortcuts">"Services", finding your Service in the list of Services, and double-clicking the whitespace next to it do define a global shortcut.
In System Preferences under Trackpad then Point & Click, uncheck Look up.
Best Answer
Apple uses Spotlight Suggestions for this functionality since El Capitan: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21573
But Spotlight Suggestions are disabled for some reason in most countries: http://www.apple.com/macos/feature-availability/#spotlight-suggestions
Check if your country is in the Supported list. If not, you're out of luck at the moment, just as me. I couldn't find any normal workaround, that doesn't involve constant VPN connection. If you're OK with VPN inconvenience, cost and additional latency, you may check this solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3cln0j/how_can_you_enable_spotlight_suggestions_in_mac/
Supported countries at the time of writing: