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 16:15:17 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <644f88d5-b003-4269-b0ab-9b0eba299f06@v42g2000yqv.googlegroups.com> <3f541b5f-502b-408d-8f02-5c4d317e139f@r15g2000prd.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 1232034066 3440 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 15:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:41:06 +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 16:42:17 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 1LNUM3-0008Dg-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNUKl-00060Q-6D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:40:39 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 50 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18PcOo6Jl8tyrAJEZgr/PJoCL4Ill0KVuWLDi1GbXfiU2piDnMf6hkSGH2afKdYAd5otvBp6Ml6kCPa9ulkQ6l39cBWiJhoDsB607KxOXDUgTzvT8LQxVt7VflAID7Zs2BgGwj2oqW6Ig== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:15:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19etGTDNKkR+aDZfXvIZNy8JstyctqhR5f52u0kHVQpdA== Cancel-Lock: sha1:WsuPH88lqJojDGjT89iV+Yi0wk8= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166032 comp.emacs:97664 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:61358 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: >> How can I install a thesaurus in emacs? > >> http://www.myrkr.in-berlin.de/dictionary/index.html >> by Torsten Hilbrich >> which is a interface to dict.org, which includes a similar words dict. > > Richard Riley wrote: >> This seems to be a subset of the excellent dictem package >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem > > i tried it before and somewhat hated it. > > It requires you to install a third party dict software. But it does > not mention this fact explicitly until you try to install it. I It seems to be the correct time :-; > vaguely recall it was originally a modification of Torsten's package, > but i think it's worse in one important respect because now it > UNCESSARILY relies on another software. > > dict protocol is a simple text based protocol. Elisp can handle it > completely, perhaps even better than other langs. It is extremely > silly to throw away the core of Torsten's engine. Further, if i have > to install another dict program for accessing online dicts ... i > really have a million choices, the last would be something from the > linux world. > > i can also simply have few lines of elisp so that i can have emacs as > interface to access any web based dict thru w3 engine. > > somehow i find dictem distasteful, perhaps dishonest and technically > stupid. I could be wrong ... > > Xah > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ Yes, the dictd client. It also features lots of nice pretty printing extensions to provide hot links in an emacs buffer. But the original post was targetting *synonyms*. Can either package do them? -- 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