Re: Proposed new addition to Jed...

[Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:08:43 +0100, "G. Milde" <g.milde@xxxxxx> said:

> On 10.01.06, Dave Laird wrote:
> > However, having a new Slang module which handles the new menu entry and
> > the mechanics for the thesaurus interchange would be a valuable new tool
> > for Jed. 

> I could have a look at it or you could try using the documented template
> module at http://jedmodes.sf.net/doc/foo.sl
> (Which is, however an overkill for the intended mode. A better "model" 
> (but with less comments) would be e.g. http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/ding/

Or you could use the dict mode at http://jedmodes.sf.net/mode/dict

> > This possibly would be a Linux/Unix improvement, because I do not
> > know how one would go about implementing this feature in Windows, much
> > less if it is feasible. 

> This mainly depends on the availability of the dict command for windows.
> (And on people willing to test.)

Dict.sl uses the socket module which hasn't been ported to Windows,
alternatively you could try the curl module - curl suppports the dict
protocol, and should work on Windows.  Debian users don't even need to build
it, since it's packaged in package slang-curl.


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