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: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:02:23 +0300 Message-ID: <20201002160223.GH3520@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> 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="18932"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: "Philip K." , eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 18:11:36 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 1kONeh-0004hX-Ds for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 18:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46716 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kONeg-0005Ec-6C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:11:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kONWg-0004bn-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:39233) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kONWd-0007SK-TV; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.18]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000099F48.000000005F774F1E.00003B6B; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:02:35 -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 = 2020/10/02 12:02:41 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: 29 X-Spam_score: 2.9 X-Spam_bar: ++ X-Spam_report: (2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS=3.335, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no 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:256948 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman [2020-10-02 06:53]: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > > When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies? > > > yes, you just have to start the dictd deamon locally and point the > > client to localhost. > > If any special configuration is needed to tell dict to look > at a local dictionary, that is bad design. It should look for > a local dictionary by default. Looking elsewhere should be > the special case. Exactly. The client in Emacs, such as dictionary.el should first look for localhost, and if that is not available, few servers could be set as fallback. This could be done in customization. dictd - is server started on machine, should be installed, then dictionaries should be installed Emacs could have dictionary.el looking up to the list of servers pre-configured, starting with localhost > > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) > Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) > > >