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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:33:51 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: 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: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232030566 21823 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 14:42:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:42:46 +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 15:43:53 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 1LNTRf-0001cg-Kx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:43:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNTQP-0001LH-37 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:42:25 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.freenet.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!feeder.erje.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX19Dh+x+CPEZK+O+bBSEb+KppKYOVkW2HaYv0GKn5xjhT2tGfEOZqPUpC7fV89AhxVi5/INeemEii5pU5Z/I1ZBm996wnsUm1P4QH84neg7+pvH9kVBgz1qqzo+IuyhpwCZdfJ8FFvVF6g== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:33:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+Hs0ndRVhc1nSR4XMCeIgNw09LgUD0icaXRMM6Kt6iUA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:YpNhNLPXXWdldKGRb7UQ8TxXWb4= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166028 comp.emacs:97662 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:61355 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > 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↗ by Torsten Hilbrich↗ > > which is a interface to dict.org, which includes a similar words dict. This seems to be a subset of the excellent dictem package http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem > > 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: > > • Dictionary and Reference Lookup with Emacs > http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_lookup_ref.html > > • Problems of Open Source Dictionaries > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/dict_open_source_probs.html > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄ -- 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