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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 17:08:19 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02)

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2020-09-30 17:03]:
> > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:37:33 -0400
> > Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, 
> > jamtlu@gmail.com,
> >  dgutov@yandex.ru
> > 
> > There IS a free English dictionary that people can download.  It is
> > Wiktionary, packaged by kiwix.  It uses a special format, .zim, that
> > is compact and suitable for searching.  That project packages
> > Wiktionary for various languages.
> > 
> > Does the dict program have the ability to access a dictionary
> > in that format?
> 
> This site seems to offer a gateway between Wiktionary and DICT
> clients:
> 
>    https://hewgill.com/dict/

That is great, but... the database for Wiktionary shall be made
available, I have asked Greg, webmaster, to tell me where is such.



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