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[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : Re: xthesaurus ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Tue Apr 7 16:02:49 1992
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 16:01:59 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: web@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, macaroon@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
Of course, the solution is to get a real thesaurus. I did.
I have obtained the Project Gutenberg online 1911 Roget's Thesaurus with
an Emacs/Perl interface and installed it in the sipb locker. The source
is in /mit/sipb/src/src/Roget. The way you use it (or the way you will
use it, when the read-updated volume is updated tonight) is as follows:
athena% attach sipb (or add sipb; doesn't matter)
athena% emacs &
In emacs:
M-x load-file /mit/sipb/lib/elisp/thesaurus.el
M-x thesaurus-lookup-word word
Or you can put the following (or equivalent) in your .emacs file:
(setq load-path (cons "/mit/sipb/lib/elisp" load-path))
(autoload 'thesaurus-lookup-word "thesaurus")
(autoload 'thesaurus-show-words "thesaurus")
(autoload 'thesaurus-lookup-word-in-text "thesaurus")
So much for the Emacs interface. The command line interface is a Perl
script. (Emacs calls this as a subprocess to look up words in the
thesaurus.) Here is the description of the usage of the Perl script,
which I have installed as "th" in the sipb locker:
#################################################################################
## Usage:
##
## th <word> [<word> ...]
## Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with
## "<word>".
##
## th -V <word> [<word> ...]
## Search the thesaurus for all entries that begin with
## "<word>". All displayed entries are separated by a line
## of dashes.
##
## th -W <word> [<word> ...]
## Search the thesaurus for the entry that contains
## "<word>" exactly.
##
## th -w <word> [<word> ...]
## Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with
## "<word>".
##
## th -w -v <word> [<word> ...]
## Display all words in the thesaurus that begin with
## "<word>". Alongside each word, the numbers of the
## entries that contain the word are displayed.
##
## th -n <number>
## Display thesaurus entry number "<number>". Unlike a
## word, only one number can be specified.
##
##
###############################################################################
This is *Alpha-Test* software. Normally, I would be reluctant to
install any alpha-test software in the sipb locker, but these programs
seem to work okay, and the demand for the service they can provide is
high.
-Calvin
