Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Eduardo Ochs]

Here's how to check the dict entries for a word if you have eev
installed. Type

  dict buffer

in a line by itself, and then type `M-S' (meta-shift-s). The `M-S'
wraps the contents of the current line in a:

  # (find-sh "...")

so the line becomes:

  # (find-sh "dict buffer")

which is an elisp hyperlink to the output of running "dict buffer" on
a shell. In this case the FOLDOC entry is the most relevant one, so I
will usually duplicate and refine that hyperlink, to obtain this:

  # (find-sh "dict buffer")
  # (find-sh "dict buffer" "[foldoc]")

For more info:

  http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2019.html
  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-eev-quick-intro.html#3
  http://angg.twu.net/eev-intros/find-refining-intro.html
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86yiRG8YJD0&t=841

Cheers,
  Eduardo Ochs

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 20:31, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 28.09.2020 06:45, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> >
> >    > Here's a simple example:
> >
> >    > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00842.html
> >
> > Referring to messages that way is inconvenient for me.  The message is
> > in my saved mail, but I cannot find it with that info.  Would you
> > please send message IDs instead?  I can search for that.
>
> Too bad. Perhaps the generated HTML should include something unique in
> the urls to help refer to. Not sure what, though. You can't easily read
> a website. My email client can't search by message ID.
>
> Anyway, here it is: <d9c671f2-dfa1-ffdd-f501-83c143d350e7@yandex.ru>
>
> See this and the preceding thread.
>
> >    > BTW, my last personal email to you has seen no response. Were you too
> >    > busy, or is there some delivery problem, maybe?
> >
> > Sorry, I don't remember.  I don't remember things like that for very
> > long nowadays.  If it was important, ask me again.
>
> OK, will do.
>