Re: dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 22:56:14 -0400
> Cc: philipk@posteo.net, eduardoochs@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support,
>  spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, torsten@myrkr.in-berlin.de,
>  dgutov@yandex.ru, jamtlu@gmail.com
> 
>   > The client in Emacs, such as dictionary.el should first look for
>   > localhost, and if that is not available, few servers could be set as
>   > fallback.
> 
> That would do the right job, but in a kludgy way.  It ought to
> be able to read local files without the kludge of talking
> to the same machine over the net.

Doing so would require reinventing the wheel of reading the dictionary
files, something that dict servers already implement.  Why not let the
server do its job?