dict - Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Jean Louis]

* Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> [2020-10-02 06:53]:
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>   > > When you do that, can 'dict' refer directly to the local copies?
> 
>   > yes, you just have to start the dictd deamon locally and point the
>   > client to localhost.
> 
> If any special configuration is needed to tell dict to look
> at a local dictionary, that is bad design.  It should look for
> a local dictionary by default.  Looking elsewhere should be
> the special case.

Exactly.

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.

This could be done in customization.

dictd - is server started on machine, should be installed, then
dictionaries should be installed

Emacs could have dictionary.el looking up to the list of servers
pre-configured, starting with localhost






























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