From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/23643 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: dict.el Date: 01 Jul 1999 18:05:50 +0200 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199907011551.LAA71563@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161337 3090 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08826 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:07:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB03107; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:06:25 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 01 Jul 1999 11:07:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15346 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:06:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from laas.laas.fr (root@laas.laas.fr [140.93.0.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08811 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:05:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from elgar.laas.fr (elgar [140.93.21.57]) by laas.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA12879; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:05:52 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from emarsden@localhost) by elgar.laas.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01862; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 18:05:51 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: "Edward J. Sabol" X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:51:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23643 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:23643 >>>>> "ejs" == Edward J Sabol writes: Tibor> Note that there is already a `dict.el', an "Emacs interface Tibor> to the Online Dictionary Database at dict.org", written by Tibor> Eric Mardsen [1]. ejs> There's also another `dict.el' written by Alexander Vorobiev ejs> which is also an Emacs frontend ejs> for dict.org. well I never, dictionary frontends must be very sexy. I just found Alexander's dict.el on Dejanews[1], and his predates mine so I will rename. But note that it is an interface to a local dictd server, not to dict.org, and that there is a IMO far superior dictionary.el for that purpose by Torsten Hilbrich at [2]. My dict.el is useful when you don't have a local dictd server but have permanent internet access. [1] [2] -- Eric Marsden It's elephants all the way down