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: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87lfgqqsb4.fsf@posteo.net> <20201002160223.GH3520@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="34993"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de, dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 03 05:01:15 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 1kOXnO-000903-Vn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:01:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40616 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOXnO-0007yq-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOXic-0002LV-Ni for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47051) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kOXiZ-0007Ob-QR; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kOXiY-0004NV-0f; Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201002160223.GH3520@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 2 Oct 2020 19:02:23 +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:256984 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. ]]] > The client in Emacs, such as dictionary.el should first look for > localhost, and if that is not available, few servers could be set as > fallback. That would do the right job, but in a kludgy way. It ought to be able to read local files without the kludge of talking to the same machine over the net. -- 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)