So... remove dict.el from the package?
dictionary-el works for me.
Thanks,
Peter
Boruch Baum <boruch_b...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Subject: emacs-goodies-el: dict.el not working
> Package: emacs-goodies-el
> Version: 35.12
> Severity: important
>
> One of the components of package `emacs-goodies-el' is `dict.el',
> which does not work.
>
> 1] The linux program `dict', upon which dict.el depends, has
> deprecated its option `--pager', with the result that function
> `dict-generate-options' now silently fails. From the bash
> command-line, the output of such a dict command would be `option
> "Option --pager is now deprecated"'.
>
> $ dict --version
> dict 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
> Copyright 1997-2002 Rickard E. Faith (fa...@dict.org)
> Copyright 2002-2007 Aleksey Cheusov (v...@gmx.net)
>
> The fix for this is to remove the `--pager' option from that function.
> See below (paragraph #3) describing that I successfully manually
> evaluated such a dict command to an emacs buffer.
>
>
>
> 2] The same dict.el function `dict-generate-options' terminates its
> option string with a `-', when it should be a `--'.
>
> The fix for this is to make that change.
>
>
>
> 3] The above changes weren't enough for me to get dict working. The
> trouble seems to be in the function `dict-get-answer' with how it sets
> a process sentinel. Since I locally made the above changes, I have
> gotten the code to function using the following snippet:
>
> (start-process "dict" "*DICT test*" "sh" "-c"
> (dict-generate-command "word" "wn" "localhost"))
>
> Where buffer "*DICT test*" had already been created, where function
> `dict-generate-options' had been modified per paragraphs #1 and #2
> above,and for a dict server installed locally with the `wordnet'
> database.
>
> I don't have a fix for this.
>
>
>
> 4] FYI, Debian is now packaging a parallel package `dictionary-el' in
> addition to the `dict.el' packaged as part of `emacs-goodies', so
> there is now some duplication of functionality floating about. Debian
> may want to consider choosing just one; I wouldn't feel qualified to
> voice an opinion on the matter until I could compare working versions
> of each.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Distributor ID: Devuan
> Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 (jessie)
> Release: 1.0
> Codename: jessie
> Architecture: x86_64
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on:
> ii bash 4.4-1
> ii dpkg 1.17.27
> ii emacs24-nox [emacsen] 24.5+1-6~bpo8+1
> ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
>
> -- debconf information:
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; mark\
> ed by <-- HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <-- HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at /usr/share/\
> perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; mark\
> ed by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Con\
> fig.pm line 30.
>
>
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