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 17:21:56 +0300 Message-ID: <20201001142156.GS4797@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus> <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <20200930100344.GY18070@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="27229"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 16:23:28 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 1kNzUU-0006uW-9q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:23:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52906 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzUT-0006yb-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzTB-0006HG-5f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:52739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNzT9-0007mk-BF; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 10:22:04 -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 00000000000EDCAC.000000005F75E607.00003654; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:21:58 -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:256848 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman [2020-10-01 07:15]: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > Does it have the ability to use a locally stored dictionary? That's > > > what we should encourage -- not dependence on servers by default. > > > Yes, it has ability to access local servers, at my Hyperbola > > GNU/Linux-libre the package dictd was (probably) so configured to try > > localhost first. > > This design partly assuages the problem but does not eliminate it. > With this design, referrihg to someone else's server is the natural > and easy way, and referring to data on your own machine is the hard way. > > > On many other GNU/Linux systems, dictionaries can be > > easier downloaded and installed on local system. > > When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies? Yes, it can.