Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[Jean Louis]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-09-29 17:12]:
> > Search documentation is separate feature from looking up any technical
> > or special word in glossary
> 
> No, I think it's quite related, especially since the Glossary is part
> of the manual.

It is related. Let me express myself better, I am proposing a
function, something like a long click or key press that is then
searching in the glossary. Maybe underlying Lisp functions can be used
for that feature.

> > I am personall using dictionary servers straight from Emacs, {s-d} on
> > any word gives me helm completion, list of dictionaries I can choose
> > from, to find a definition, it runs these functions below, and {s-w}
> > runs (wordnut-search) from wordnut package, so definitions are
> > quickly there accessible. If we speak of text editing, we edit words,
> > words are defined and Emacs should have reference to dictionary for
> > each word, and fall back to online searches.
> 
> I'd rather have Emacs implement the client side of the DICT protocol,
> it shouldn't be too hard.  Especially people already tried (there are
> packages floating out there).  Depending on an external tool makes the
> solution less portable.

That would be great tool in Emacs, it would make it powerful teaching tool.