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 18:00:10 +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 1232041513 1624 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 17:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:45:13 +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 18:46:25 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 1LNWIA-0003HR-Aq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:46:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWGt-0001VK-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:47 -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: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX18TooIP126hoBAZc8bHQpdWOUwlCFoFsi+t8u+PN2j2Gjksl7oVbMpFISTVkjgIdGX1hX1/7OEWsApPg989eUrgPRap4oECRhxhGf5mT30K/3UnwrA+LRjqUTF398MAnjzPdpqodDNJ0Q== Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:00:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+UHL96Ie6gWeyMWWpCh+RoPHL/i7nJct4nfDyuoC69sQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:jI1JfWX6w6b1S4NOcQ+Zspro7sk= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166042 comp.emacs:97668 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:61364 Archived-At: Richard Riley writes: > 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. > Apologies, correction: ,---- | (defun rgr/synonyms() | (interactive) | (let* ((default (region-or-word-at-point)) | (term (read-string (format "Synonyms for (%s): " | default) default))) | (dictem-run | 'dictem-base-search | "moby-thes" term "exact"))) `----