Wordsmithing in Emacs

Does this support having multiple dictionaries at the same time like lexic (https://github.com/tecosaur/lexic)?

Thanks for the writing. It was a nice read. I have a cuple of questions, if you (or someone else) is able to answer: is there any advantage of using aspell over hunspell? This protocol you mention, does it have include other stuff than just word lookup? I mean does it provide features found in wordnet like synonims and antonyms?

For dictionary lookup, I like https://github.com/manateelazycat/sdcv since I have a stardict version of the OED.

Yes `dict` is fully configurable to fetch remote or local dictionaries.

>is there any advantage of using aspell over hunspell? I'm not going to say that there are advantages, but they are different dictionary programs so you might find that one of them suits your mistakes better than the other. This [person](https://battlepenguin.com/tech/aspell-and-hunspell-a-tale-of-two-spell-checkers/) found aspell better, for example.

Thank you.

Thanks a lot for this. I recently finished writing a 130k thousand word novel using Emacs (org-mode). Loved using it, though I've barely customized it - and didn't have any spellcheck whilst writing. Now I'm editing the draft, and ... well that is handy, ta.

Just to confirm: multiple dictionaries at the same time?

Yes. You can have as many as you like. It's very configurable. Debian configures all the ones you install to run at the same time, so I left that bit out.

It can hook into wordnet (I use it), but only for the definitions, as far as I know. If you want to walk the semantic tree in WN you'll need the wordnet client and/or a tool that can talk to it. I know there are a couple of emacs packages kicking around that can.

Who created the emacs artworks for these latest posts? Super cool, I’m a fan!

I am a long time dictd and dictionary.el user and I have just tried lexic. One advantage of dictionary.el that I see is that it can parse and highlight references. This make following multi word references easier. It can do this because it talks the dictd protocol directly so it doesn't have to rely on parsing the plain text output of a CLI utility. The main disadvantage is that you have to either run your own dictd server or use a public one. I keep checking out other solutions because of this but so far I have always ended up back on dictd.

Is there something similar for thesaurus?

If you install all the dictionaries that I suggested, you'll get a good range of things, including -- frequently -- synonyms and antonyms. EDIT: There's also https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dict-moby-thesaurus Wordnet's answer to `eloquent`: eloquent adj 1: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver- tongued, smooth-spoken]

Thanks. > I know there are a couple of emacs packages kicking around that can. Yes, I am aware myself of wordnut and helm-wordnut.

When you look up a word, do the competing dictionaries show up their definitions next to each other so you can quickly compare them? That's my main use case of lexic.

That sent me through a nice chain of articles. Thanks.

Thank you for adding the "Updated for Emacs XX" under the article titles!

Awesome, thanks!

No problem.

any details on your novel?