From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 22:25:33 +0300 Message-ID: <835z7vhxsi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <91bb3e347d5caed9487a2cd8e6d0db04@condition-alpha.com> <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> <916af7e9-961b-44e5-ab11-0f128f52a8fe@default> <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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4632"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 21:26:41 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 1kNhkP-00014u-Es for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:26:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40576 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhkO-0007Tg-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhjb-0006Vi-Uo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:25:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41783) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhja-0004fu-VU; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:25:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2739 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhjS-0002w6-H4; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:25:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h7rfn0wz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:36:52 +0300) 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:256793 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: Jean Louis , alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, > rms@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:36:52 +0300 > > > We already have "M-s M-w". > > > > Adding a specialized command to query DICT servers will also be a > > welcome addition. > > Anyone can already enable this feature easily in own init file with: > > (when (require 'dictem nil t) > ;; (setq dictem-server "dict.org") > ;; (setq dictem-server "mova.org") > (setq dictem-server "localhost") > (setq dictem-port "2628") > (dictem-initialize) > (global-set-key "\M-s\M-d" 'dictem-run-search)) That only works on Posix systems. We should have a DICT client implemented in Emacs Lisp, perhaps based on dictionary.el.