From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o8ls1vvq.fsf@posteo.net> <20200926145302.sjrwjrguf5ialc25@Ergus> <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19914"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, jamtlu@gmail.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Eduardo Ochs Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 30 06:52:11 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 1kNU67-00056E-6A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 06:52:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59644 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNU66-00014W-8j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:52:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38282) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNTs0-0008Pw-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55321) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNTry-0000yp-1R; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:34 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kNTrx-0004SS-1S; Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Eduardo Ochs on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:51:30 -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:256740 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Hold your horses! I am concerned that promoting 'dict' is going in the wrong direction. I don't know all the facts, so I won't assert that it is a problem; but we need to check. The program 'dict' seems to be intended to access dictionaries on internet servers. Probably on servers that don't belong to the user. Does it have the ability to use a locally stored dictionary? That's what we should encourage -- not dependence on servers by default. 'dict -D' gave me a list of dictionaries that the program knows about. I presume these are found on various servers. It does not say what their licenses are. Which of those dictionaries is downloadable with a free license? 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? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)