From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:36:52 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87h7rfn0wz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16238"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, rms@gnu.org, Jean Louis , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 21:20:04 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 1kNhdz-00046P-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:20:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57698 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhdy-0002g9-Kr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46272) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhdK-0001o0-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from relay12.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.232]:48467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNhdG-00041I-Pp; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:19:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-108-13.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.108.13]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay12.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC826200003; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:19:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <833630ll5x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:20:10 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.178.232; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay12.mail.gandi.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/30 15:19:12 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=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:256791 Archived-At: >> I suggest that there shall be visible, exposed function to lookup >> words in dictionaries. > > 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))