Re: Elisp: Search a File Without Visiting?

[Sam Halliday <devnull@example.com>]

taashlo AT sandia DOT gov wrote:
> I've written some elisp so that when I hit a key
> sequence (C-ct) a thesaurus lookup of the word
<snip>
> [1] ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/mthes10.zip

this is not a direct answer to your question; but are you aware of the
aiksaurus project? [http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net] which is a GPL'ed
command line and GUI frontend to the gutenberg thesaurus which you have
referenced (they distribute a much smaller binary data file with their
package). if you did not know of aiksaurus' existence, then maybe its
funtionality can aid your elisp.

i am not aware of any elisp wrapper to that program, but if you intent
to write one, i would most certainly be interrested in using it!! :-D