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Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?
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Xah Lee |
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Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs? |
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:08:44 -0800 (PST) |
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> 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
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/
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- what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, address@hidden, 2009/01/14
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Richard Riley, 2009/01/14
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Xah Lee, 2009/01/14
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Richard Riley, 2009/01/15
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?,
Xah Lee <=
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Richard Riley, 2009/01/15
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, address@hidden, 2009/01/15
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Xah Lee, 2009/01/15
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Richard Riley, 2009/01/15
- Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?, Richard Riley, 2009/01/15