[cgreek:00304] Re: cgreek21

[TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas@xxxxxxxx>]

William Furley writes:

> I find Diogenes pretty cumbersome to use, particularly if one is 

I have not tried Diogenes yet, but is it so?

> working/writing with emacs; if the linkup with Diogenes for word search 
> means one has to start the various Diogenes programmes (perl script + 
> browser) oneself, before seeing the results of a word search in emacs, I 

You do not need a browser.  I visited Diogenes' web page and found
that it has a command line interface.  Just go into shell-mode (M-x
shell) and type "C-x RET p utf-8 RET utf-8 RET" to receive the Unicode
output.  Then you can enjoy all the functionality of Diogenes.

> have my doubts whether that's a comfortable method. Since emacs is so 
> fast and efficient I wonder whether one couldn't keep the word search 
> function of cgreek internal to emacs; 

We could, but I believe Perl is much faster than Emacs Lisp especially
when handling large files like TLG.

> after all, Robin Smith's programme 
> is there for emacs20 (I got it sort-of working with Windows XP); it 
> seemed to offer the kind of functionality that I was looking for. Would 
> it not be more sense to update (and improve on) his programme?

It makes sense.  After all, having two search systems is better than
having only one.  

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