Re: what is the easiest way to install a thesaurus feature in emacs?

[Richard Riley]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jan 14, 3:15 am, "avile...@gmail.com" <avile...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How can I install a thesaurus in emacs? I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and
>> I've googled a bit about mthesaur.el, synonyms.el et al, but haven't
>> found any packaged options to do an apt-get install.
>
> i use
>
> <a href="http://www.myrkr.in-berlin.de/dictionary/
> index.html">dictionary↗</a> by <a href="http://www.myrkr.in-
> berlin.de/">Torsten Hilbrich↗</a>
>
> which is a interface to dict.org, which includes a similar words dict.

This seems to be a subset of the excellent dictem package

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dictem

>
> you can easily setup emacs so you can press a button to lookup current
> word in any online references sites, including professional ones like
> American Heritage Dict, Merriem Webster, Oxford, etc. You may set it
> up to either switch you to browser, or show result inside emacs.
>
> See also:
>
> • Dictionary and Reference Lookup with Emacs
>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_lookup_ref.html
>
> • Problems of Open Source Dictionaries
>   http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/dict_open_source_probs.html
>
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

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