From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: advice on hash tables? Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:22:00 -0700 Message-ID: <87vbrbfyyf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87a98oj0u1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <8761jb664g.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404584564 25791 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2014 18:22:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 18:22:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 05 20:22:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X3Ubd-0003ue-4F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3Ubc-00062Q-N2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3UbK-00061i-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:22:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3UbE-0004AI-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:22:18 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3UbE-0004A3-7V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:22:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X3UbD-0003Tl-0B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:22:11 +0200 Original-Received: from 63.226.249.211 ([63.226.249.211]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:22:10 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 63.226.249.211 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:22:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.226.249.211 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7rD++CTpexpHV+fHaXGHlkR10SQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98549 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > Hi Eric, > >> 理性認識 理性认识 [li3 xing4 ren4 shi5] /cognition/rational knowledge/ > > Since the dictionary is organized by lines, consider using simple text > search. This gives you results nearly instantly (try isearching the > dictionary file, or M-x occur !); OTOH, going through the file and > creating some lisp structure from it will cause a large delay, probably, > lots of seconds. > > BTW, here's how helm implements a dict lookup interface for some > dictionaries avoiding building up a Lisp structure: > > https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-dictionary Actually that's a very good point... I'm doing the manual isearch thing now, and that has gotten annoying enough that I wanted to automate it, but you're quite right it would make much more sense just to write a function to zip through the file and find the definition. At least at this stage of things. Thanks!