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: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <644f88d5-b003-4269-b0ab-9b0eba299f06@v42g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> References: 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 1231980428 5557 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 00:47:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:47:08 +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 01:48:19 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 1LNGPB-0000Ff-MC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:48:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNGNv-0007zM-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:46:59 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v42g2000yqv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.175.142 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1231961899 31285 127.0.0.1 (14 Jan 2009 19:38:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v42g2000yqv.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:166007 comp.emacs:97658 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:45:47 -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:61337 Archived-At: On Jan 14, 3:15 am, "avile...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hi, > > How can I install a thesaurus in emacs? I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and > I've googled a bit about mthesaur.el, synonyms.el et al, but haven't > found any packaged options to do an apt-get install. i use dictionary=E2=86=97 by Torsten Hilbrich=E2=86=97 which is a interface to dict.org, which includes a similar words dict. you can easily setup emacs so you can press a button to lookup current word in any online references sites, including professional ones like American Heritage Dict, Merriem Webster, Oxford, etc. You may set it up to either switch you to browser, or show result inside emacs. See also: =E2=80=A2 Dictionary and Reference Lookup with Emacs http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_lookup_ref.html =E2=80=A2 Problems of Open Source Dictionaries http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/dict_open_source_probs.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84