Re: Integration of dictionary package

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-10-08 20:38]:
> > From: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>
> > Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:33:16 +0200
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > - support for initially looking up on localhost and the switching to
> > > dict.org
> > 
> > Will this be enabled by default? And in case there is no local server,
> > will this slow operations down, or do you plan on caching the connected
> > server?
> 
> I think the existence of a local server should be probed just once,
> when the package is activated.

Local server may be started manually and not at system startup
time. dictionary.el should check for local server each time, as it is
easy and quick, it does not delay visibly.