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: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:08:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83tuvdf6kf.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> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuvegkmo.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14972"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, eduardoochs@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@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 Fri Oct 02 09:10:09 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 1kOFCj-0003nT-0A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:10:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46490 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOFCh-00007g-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOFBe-0007gs-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOFBe-0000jN-AC; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3232 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOFBS-0001Lz-Td; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 03:08:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:46 -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:256930 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, > spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, > jamtlu@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:46 -0400 > > I don't want to argue about whose fault it is. The point is that > the lookup software should handle a format that we can download > Wikipedia in. What's so special about wiktionary that we should prefer it? The other free and PD dictionaries used by dict.org aren't of lower quality, and sometimes much better.