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: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:59:40 +0300 Message-ID: <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o8ls1vvq.fsf@posteo.net> <20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus> <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3569"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 16:04:32 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 1kNcie-0000kN-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 16:04:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43680 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNcid-00072L-9x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43112) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNceN-0002zz-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:00:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNceN-0007Qb-5l; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2183 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kNce4-0007Hr-6f; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 09:59:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400) 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:256755 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400 > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, jamtlu@gmail.com, > dgutov@yandex.ru > > There IS a free English dictionary that people can download. It is > Wiktionary, packaged by kiwix. It uses a special format, .zim, that > is compact and suitable for searching. That project packages > Wiktionary for various languages. > > Does the dict program have the ability to access a dictionary > in that format? This site seems to offer a gateway between Wiktionary and DICT clients: https://hewgill.com/dict/