Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Does it have the ability to use a locally stored dictionary?  That's
  > > what we should encourage -- not dependence on servers by default.

  > Yes, it has ability to access local servers, at my Hyperbola
  > GNU/Linux-libre the package dictd was (probably) so configured to try
  > localhost first.

This design partly assuages the problem but does not eliminate it.
With this design, referrihg to someone else's server is the natural
and easy way, and referring to data on your own machine is the hard way.

  > On many other GNU/Linux systems, dictionaries can be
  > easier downloaded and installed on local system.

When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies?


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