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Re: How to make Emacs popular again.


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:21:56 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02)

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> [2020-10-01 07:15]:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> 
>   > > Does it have the ability to use a locally stored dictionary?  That's
>   > > what we should encourage -- not dependence on servers by default.
> 
>   > Yes, it has ability to access local servers, at my Hyperbola
>   > GNU/Linux-libre the package dictd was (probably) so configured to try
>   > localhost first.
> 
> This design partly assuages the problem but does not eliminate it.
> With this design, referrihg to someone else's server is the natural
> and easy way, and referring to data on your own machine is the hard way.
> 
>   > On many other GNU/Linux systems, dictionaries can be
>   > easier downloaded and installed on local system.
> 
> When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies?

Yes, it can. 



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