Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:50:39 +0000, Gregory Heytings via "Emacs 
>>>>> development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> said:

    >> 
    >> That only works on Posix systems.  We should have a DICT client
    >> implemented in Emacs Lisp, perhaps based on dictionary.el.
    >> 

    Emacs> What is missing in dictionary.el?  It is implemented in Emacs Lisp, I
    Emacs> just tried it (apt-get install elpa-dictionary), and it seems to work
    Emacs> fine. The default server is dict.org, port 2628, which gives access 
to
    Emacs> all dictionaries available in Debian.

Iʼve been using it for <checks notes> 2 decades, and itʼs fine. We
could ask the author if he's willing to have it incorporated in emacs.

Robert
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