Re: thesaurus

[batkins57]

Walter Mitty wrote:
> "batkins57@gmail.com" risked the wrath of Usenet weenies mastering
>  mommies computer when he ventured forth on 2005-12-31, commmitted
>  his life to the whims of Google,  and spluttered:
>
> > I use
> >
> > (defun dict (word)
> >   (interactive "sWord: ")
> >   (split-window-vertically)
> >   (other-window 1)
> >   (browse-url (concat "http://www.answers.com/"; word)))
> >
> > M-x dict RET nice RET
> >
> >:)
> >
>
> Interesting, thanks. Why do you split the window? Does you rbrowser
> come up embedded? I use firefox and it launches a seperate instance

I use w3m, which is a browser built into Emacs.  Normally it takes up
the whole window.