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: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:19:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20201001141946.GR4797@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <39133459-6582-4772-b2bf-03eb123cb22b@default> <20200928220307.GD18207@protected.rcdrun.com> <83ft71l3cf.fsf@gnu.org> <20200929041613.GH18207@protected.rcdrun.com> <833630ll5x.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7rfn0wz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <835z7vhxsi.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="15001"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 16:20:44 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 1kNzRr-0003iM-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:20:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47902 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzRq-0004p8-HH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzR4-0004HO-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:38145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzR3-0007O5-2i; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:19:54 -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.000000005F75E585.00003620; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:19:49 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:256847 Archived-At: * Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions. [2020-09-30 22:51]: > > > > > That only works on Posix systems. We should have a DICT client > > implemented in Emacs Lisp, perhaps based on dictionary.el. > > > > What is missing in dictionary.el? It is implemented in Emacs Lisp, I just > tried it (apt-get install elpa-dictionary), and it seems to work fine. The > default server is dict.org, port 2628, which gives access to all > dictionaries available in Debian. I have now asked Torsten the author if he would be willing to give that package for official Emacs. Jean