From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs? Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:26:38 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231936852 4500 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2009 12:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 13:42:04 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 1LN54E-0002yW-R5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:41:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LN52y-0006Lw-Dz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/Jv2PXQpv6OvWGnVk+erft0/Ee5TAgraCbCO/CqxpbftEgMzMz7Bz2GqgLSc7uxdHN91y57OwZLAYpVwDtRKAUWDC0lRUh8IZp8g0j8qEHPKEaMZ75653P69r2bCAWpDE= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:26:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+MIOb9QKBF5YopPdKYT/Rwv7JTzes39UGqsWPgurp40g== Cancel-Lock: sha1:tjZravcMsP7ppIxRfqBBN6HiNsY= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165999 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:61327 Archived-At: "avilella@gmail.com" writes: > 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. > > Anyone? > > Cheers, > > Albert. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/synonyms.el Save the code into your .emacs directory or wherever you store your .el files. My setup: (setq synonyms-file "/home/rgr/.emacs.d/mthesaur.txt") (setq synonyms-cache-file "/home/rgr/.emacs.d/syn.cache") (setq synonyms-match-more-flag nil) (require 'synonyms) (define-key mode-specific-map [?S] 'synonyms) -- important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970