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Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs
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Jean Louis |
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Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Sep 2020 07:55:21 +0000 |
Function to look up word definitions would use GNU dico of installed, or dict
software, or www solution as fallback.
Dico and dict would use local dictionary or remote one as fallback.
Function should be accessible by key and menu and it would act on word at point
or region.
Accessible dictionary through Emacs would empower users.
No need to ship dictionary with Emacs.
That function exists for glossary is great. Yet to help user, it should be
integrated in reading of info or otherwise made better known, as what is not
known or integrated is not as useful.
Emacs info could for example tell somewhere at beginning that technical words
could be looked up by using M-x search-emacs-glossary
On September 29, 2020 7:19:02 AM UTC, ams@gnu.org wrote:
>It would be unrealistic for each program to include a copy of the
>English dictionary. For looking up words specific to Emacs, there
>already is a function to do that: search-emacs-glossary
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, (continued)
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/27
- RE: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Drew Adams, 2020/09/28
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/28
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/28
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/28
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs,
Jean Louis <=
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/29
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Juri Linkov, 2020/09/30
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/30
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/30
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/28
Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Jean Louis, 2020/09/21