From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9343 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Acronym lookups Date: 09 Jan 1997 09:17:11 -0800 Sender: dmoore@sdnp5.ucsd.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149383 17904 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:29:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:29:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA07489 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:50:34 -0800 Original-Received: from UCSD.EDU (mailbox2.ucsd.edu [132.239.1.54]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:19:26 +0100 Original-Received: from sdnp5.ucsd.edu (sdnp5.ucsd.edu [132.239.79.10]) by UCSD.EDU (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA07659 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:19:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by sdnp5.ucsd.edu (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA23540; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:17:12 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Face: "oX;zS#-JU$-,WKSzG.1gGE]x^cIg!hW.dq>.f6pzS^A+(k!T|M:}5{_%>Io<>L&{hO7W4cicOQ|>/lZ1G(m%7iaCf,6Qgk0%%Bz7b2-W3jd0m_UG\Y;?]}4s0O-U)uox>P3JN)9cm]O\@,vy2e{`3pb!"pqmRy3peB90*2L Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch's message of 09 Jan 1997 17:38:11 +0100 Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.79/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9343 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9343 Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch writes: > >>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen writes: > > Per> I don't see it has anything to do with news, it should be a separate > Per> package like webster.el, and posted to gnu.emacs.sources. > > Well, I'm not sure I totally agree... Granted, it should probably be > posted there as well, but... Shouldn't all good news readers (ie, > pretty much just gnus) be able to help you decypher the articles you > are reading, and hence be able to look up acronyms? I mean, you have > rot13 built in to decode articles, what about acronym-lookup... I tend to agree with Per here. The functionality seems useful outside of Gnus (such as many reports and C code you have to read/edit that might have acronyms in them). Otherwise shouldn't ispell.el and webster.el be included with Gnus too? All good news readers prevent you from making spelling mistakes. :) -- David Moore | Computer Systems Lab __o UCSD Dept. Computer Science - 0114 | Work: (619) 534-8604 _ \<,_ La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 | Fax: (619) 534-1445 (_)/ (_) |