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

[Richard Riley]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

>> But the original post was targetting *synonyms*. Can either package do
>> them
>
> basically all open source dict clients access the open source dict at
> dict.org, which includes the free Moby Thesaurus.

Yes, I spotted that. Which is good as now I can drop synonyms.el and use
the one service.

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| (defun rgr/synonyms()
|   (interactive)
|   (let* ((default (region-or-word-at-point))
|        (term (read-string (format "Synonyms for (%s): "
|                                     default))))
|     (dictem-run
|      'dictem-base-search
|      "moby-thes" term "exact")))
| 
| (define-key mode-specific-map [?S] 'rgr/synonyms)
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