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: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2020 12:00:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83tuvbfzvg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> <20201002160223.GH3520@protected.rcdrun.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31498"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, 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: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 11:01:26 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 1kOdPy-00085W-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:01:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58662 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOdPx-0007WW-6F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOdPA-0006fO-7p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOdP7-00057P-Ft; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2497 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOdOx-0006kX-7f; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:00:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:14 -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:256993 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:14 -0400 > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, > spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de, > dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com > > > 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. > > That would do the right job, but in a kludgy way. It ought to > be able to read local files without the kludge of talking > to the same machine over the net. Doing so would require reinventing the wheel of reading the dictionary files, something that dict servers already implement. Why not let the server do its job?