From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs? Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:08:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <3f541b5f-502b-408d-8f02-5c4d317e139f@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <644f88d5-b003-4269-b0ab-9b0eba299f06@v42g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232055898 27641 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 21:44:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:44:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 22:46:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LNa2N-0005Vt-67 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:46:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNa15-0001PN-QO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:44:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1232032124 8349 127.0.0.1 (15 Jan 2009 15:08:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.175.142; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166031 comp.emacs:97663 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:35:55 -0500 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:61378 Archived-At: > How can I install a thesaurus in emacs? > http://www.myrkr.in-berlin.de/dictionary/index.html > by Torsten Hilbrich > which is a interface to dict.org, which includes a similar words dict. Richard Riley wrote: > This seems to be a subset of the excellent dictem package > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem i tried it before and somewhat hated it. It requires you to install a third party dict software. But it does not mention this fact explicitly until you try to install it. I vaguely recall it was originally a modification of Torsten's package, but i think it's worse in one important respect because now it UNCESSARILY relies on another software. dict protocol is a simple text based protocol. Elisp can handle it completely, perhaps even better than other langs. It is extremely silly to throw away the core of Torsten's engine. Further, if i have to install another dict program for accessing online dicts ... i really have a million choices, the last would be something from the linux world. i can also simply have few lines of elisp so that i can have emacs as interface to access any web based dict thru w3 engine. somehow i find dictem distasteful, perhaps dishonest and technically stupid. I could be wrong ... Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84