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: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:51:10 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <87h7rfn0wz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <835z7vhxsi.fsf@gnu.org> 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="38650"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 05:52:02 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 1kOC70-0009vZ-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 05:52:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50618 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC6z-00018F-J4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC6C-0000eC-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC6C-00048w-6o; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:51:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOC6A-000398-Vf; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:51:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) 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:256912 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. ]]] > What is missing in dictionary.el? It is implemented in Emacs Lisp, I just > tried it (apt-get install elpa-dictionary), and it seems to work fine. How does it work? > The default server is dict.org, port 2628, We should not refer people to someone else's server as the first, recommended way of looking up words in a dictionary. The first option should be referring to a dictionary on your own machine. It should support the formats that are widely used. I don't mind if it also has the ability to talk to servers, but that should be the last resort, not the first choice! -- 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)