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: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 11:56:45 +0300 Message-ID: <20201004085645.GP32715@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvdf6kf.fsf@gnu.org> <20201002161307.GK3520@protected.rcdrun.com> <83o8lkeh3o.fsf@gnu.org> <20201002163308.GM3520@protected.rcdrun.com> <83eemfepnq.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="35589"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 10:58:00 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 1kOzqC-000993-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 10:58:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57092 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOzqB-000897-DH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60102) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOzpH-0007ab-LW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:36219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOzpE-0006xy-C1; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.178]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000005A13D.000000005F798E50.00006C98; Sun, 04 Oct 2020 01:56:48 -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 = 2020/10/04 04:25:23 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:257018 Archived-At: * Richard Stallman [2020-10-04 06:46]: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > We have "M-x eww" to go to Wiktionary directly. > > Does using eww imply visiting a web site over the net? > My point is that this should work even if you don't have > a network connection, provided you have a local copy > of Wiktionary. It would be great if it would work through Emacs. Large problem is that data files are huge. For libraries, for universities, academies, best is to have local network kiwix-serve command that serves Wiktionary locally over network, I guess it works as web server with search engine. Jean