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Re: english-english dictionary for emacs


From: Patrick Drechsler
Subject: Re: english-english dictionary for emacs
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:11:05 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams wrote on 07 Feb 2006 17:08:06 MET:

>     > I wonder whether there is ready to use english-english
>     > dictionary for emacs.  Do You know something about that ?
>
>     Maybe mthesaur.el is what your looking for:
>     <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/mthesaur.el>
>
> Mthesaur does not provide definitions of terms; it provides
> only synonym lists.
>
> Synonyms does the same thing, plus more:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/synonyms.el (doc:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Synonyms).
>
> Synonyms also provides commands that look up dictionary
> definitions on the Web.

Thanks for the pointer, sounds interesting! I'll give it a try...

Cheers

Patrick
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