Re: Manual does not mention dictionary.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: chad <yandros@gmail.com>,  petterih@iki.fi,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 23:59:11 +0200
> 
> On Sat, Oct 12 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > As for "C-h P": I don't know what you found there, since dictionary.el
> > is part of Emacs, so package.el doesn't know about it.  "C-h P dict"
> > finds dict-tree for me, which is something different.  I guess you
> > have "C-h P" bound to some other command than in "emacs -Q".
> 
> When I do `C-h P` and type "dict" followed BY TAB, I get:
> 
> ==============================
> Click on a completion to select it.
> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
> 
> 3 possible completions:
> dict-tree
> dictionary
> dictionary-connection
> ==============================

Look under your ~/.emacs.d/elpa/ to find out why.  Or point HOME to
some other directory and try again.  Chrystal ball says you have this
cached from some MELPA access, because currently dictionary is neither
on GNU ELPA nor on NonGNU ELPA.

In a really pristine installation with an empty ~/.emacs.d/, if you
type "C-h P dict TAB", you should get "No match", I think.  I got
dict-tree because that's the only one on GNU ELPA, and I have some
cache from the last time I did "M-x list-packages".