From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:08:19 +0300 Message-ID: <20201001140819.GN4797@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <87o8ls1vvq.fsf@posteo.net> <20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus> <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3412"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: philipk@posteo.net, rms@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 16:09:40 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzHA-0000l5-3m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:09:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60350 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzH9-0006Bc-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:09:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60530) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzG2-0005Xb-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:45387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzG0-0005vb-6E; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:08:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.169]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000EDCAB.000000005F75E2D7.0000341D; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:08:22 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/01 08:21:28 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256842 Archived-At: * Eli Zaretskii [2020-09-30 17:03]: > > From: Richard Stallman > > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400 > > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, jamtlu@gmail.com, > > dgutov@yandex.ru > > > > There IS a free English dictionary that people can download. It is > > Wiktionary, packaged by kiwix. It uses a special format, .zim, that > > is compact and suitable for searching. That project packages > > Wiktionary for various languages. > > > > Does the dict program have the ability to access a dictionary > > in that format? > > This site seems to offer a gateway between Wiktionary and DICT > clients: > > https://hewgill.com/dict/ That is great, but... the database for Wiktionary shall be made available, I have asked Greg, webmaster, to tell me where is such.