From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: batkins57@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: thesaurus Date: 31 Dec 2005 11:51:03 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1136058663.473810.19280@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136058869 20659 80.91.229.2 (31 Dec 2005 19:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 31 20:54:26 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Esmo5-0002RD-81 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:54:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsmpY-0008Er-GH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:55:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.239.200.76 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1136058668 11259 127.0.0.1 (31 Dec 2005 19:51:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:51:08 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051005 Firefox/1.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.239.200.76; posting-account=RQyFAQ0AAAAIiTCD-QkZwj2n8DsgdVTY Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32326 Archived-At: I use (defun dict (word) (interactive "sWord: ") (split-window-vertically) (other-window 1) (browse-url (concat "http://www.answers.com/" word))) M-x dict RET nice RET :) Walter Mitty wrote: > What thesaurus solution do you recommend for english language in > emacs? The mthesaur solution is ridiculously slow for me and I have no > idea how to speed it up. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > Snow White's dwarfs become gnomes > -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4349726.stm > The world has gone mad.