Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Jean Louis]

* Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions. <emacs-devel@gnu.org> 
[2020-09-30 22:51]:
> 
> > 
> > That only works on Posix systems.  We should have a DICT client
> > implemented in Emacs Lisp, perhaps based on dictionary.el.
> > 
> 
> What is missing in dictionary.el?  It is implemented in Emacs Lisp, I just
> tried it (apt-get install elpa-dictionary), and it seems to work fine. The
> default server is dict.org, port 2628, which gives access to all
> dictionaries available in Debian.

I have now asked Torsten the author if he would be willing to give
that package for official Emacs.

Jean