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: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:14:29 -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> <20200930100344.GY18070@protected.rcdrun.com> 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="26537"; 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: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 06:18:43 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 1kNq3H-0006mV-78 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 06:18:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44912 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNq3G-00011r-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:18:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45020) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNpzF-0006mQ-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:48284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kNpzE-00061D-Ks; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kNpzB-0004r5-LN; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:14:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200930100344.GY18070@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Wed, 30 Sep 2020 13:03:44 +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:256822 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. ]]] > > Does it have the ability to use a locally stored dictionary? That's > > what we should encourage -- not dependence on servers by default. > Yes, it has ability to access local servers, at my Hyperbola > GNU/Linux-libre the package dictd was (probably) so configured to try > localhost first. This design partly assuages the problem but does not eliminate it. With this design, referrihg to someone else's server is the natural and easy way, and referring to data on your own machine is the hard way. > On many other GNU/Linux systems, dictionaries can be > easier downloaded and installed on local system. When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies? -- 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)