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 17:41:37 +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> <594750e7-6253-4d94-b3e5-c8655431f7c4@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232041322 862 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 17:42:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:42:02 +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 18:43:14 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 1LNWFD-00022q-11 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51303 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWDw-0006Lj-F2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:41:44 -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!news.osn.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18+K9X+fPK0Yi2aLDKEyWgpPNyr87iM0S/fj7V/DkUmQix40RjSXdWgdLzJUxh/dqDmHIe/oi/npdRBDHKbSs2q8GDA/2+KbgrWBn+n9N2XcyKaVDCNejewBxqQE/PIJ2c= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:41:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18ft/hxA7z1DO+qOPg8soBWbEXfZ1+BvO2qXddg2RmkEw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:rSiLGid3+2o/dgVkCr3/s3Dd2aU= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166038 comp.emacs:97667 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:61361 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: >> But the original post was targetting *synonyms*. Can either package do >> them > > basically all open source dict clients access the open source dict at > dict.org, which includes the free Moby Thesaurus. Yes, I spotted that. Which is good as now I can drop synonyms.el and use the one service. ,---- | (defun rgr/synonyms() | (interactive) | (let* ((default (region-or-word-at-point)) | (term (read-string (format "Synonyms for (%s): " | default)))) | (dictem-run | 'dictem-base-search | "moby-thes" term "exact"))) | | (define-key mode-specific-map [?S] 'rgr/synonyms) `----