On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 1:12 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
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 did it in a clean installation, using emacs -Q with no .emacs{,.d}
present. It completes to "dictionary", and stops because it also
knows about "dictionary-connection". Afterwards, the only thing in
.emacs.d is the eln-cache directory created by emacs -Q.
If I repeat this with C-h P di TAB, I get:
FWIW, going back to "what it does", from that same emacs -Q,
I see:
>Package dictionary is built-in.
>
> Status: Built-In.
> Summary: Client for rfc2229 dictionary servers
>
>dictionary allows you to interact with dictionary servers.
>
>Use `M-x customize-group RET dictionary RET' to modify user settings.
>
>Main commands for interaction are:
>`M-x dictionary' - open a new dictionary buffer
>`M-x dictionary-search' - search for the definition of a word
>
>You can find more information in the README file of the GitHub
>repository https://github.com/myrkr/dictionary-el
>
>[back]
>
> Status: Built-In.
> Summary: Client for rfc2229 dictionary servers
>
>dictionary allows you to interact with dictionary servers.
>
>Use `M-x customize-group RET dictionary RET' to modify user settings.
>
>Main commands for interaction are:
>`M-x dictionary' - open a new dictionary buffer
>`M-x dictionary-search' - search for the definition of a word
>
>You can find more information in the README file of the GitHub
>repository https://github.com/myrkr/dictionary-el
>
>[back]
..which is the (expected) Commentary section of lisp/net/dictionary.el
This is from a recent HEAD build, but I get the same with a prebuilt
binary of 30.0.90 under win11 (although it's harder for me to be sure
that I passed '-Q' correctly).
~Chad