From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs as frontend for translate? Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:24:10 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87ekebi2qd.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111279179 11767 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 00:39:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:39:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 01:39:39 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCoTZ-0001T8-Ko for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 01:39:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCokM-0000ta-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:56:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net eCZpGaRWkZS/UKdJUfqMxgwWELOocJ6NronHrU8RQWOtNGmvE= X-Orig-Path: robotron.ath.cx!news Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sWJi4CqaDBJMfSsw6QKsflQe+Mg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129452 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25007 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25007 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:28:29 +0100 Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle wrote: > I use "translate" a lot (Debian Sarge). Is there a way to use emacs as > a frontend for translate? >>From my ~/.emacs: ;;;; ding (defvar dh-ding-file-name "/usr/share/trans/de-en" "File name of the ding dictionary.") (when (file-exists-p dh-ding-file-name) (defun dh-ding (&optional query) (interactive (list (read-string "Query: " (current-word)))) (let ((coding-system-for-read 'latin-1) (coding-system-for-write 'latin-1)) (grep (concat "egrep -nHih " query " " dh-ding-file-name)))) (global-set-key "\C-cw" 'dh-ding)) AFAIK ding and translate are using the same dictionary. David