;; Hachette.el --- Lookup a word on the Hachette's online french dictionary.
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;; Emacs Lisp Archive Entry
;; Filename: hachette.el
;; Author: Jean-Philippe Theberge (jphil@emacslisp.org)
;; Version: 1.5
;; Created: 24/02/2000 - update: 01/08/2000
;; Keywords: Dictionaire, Hachette, French dictionary
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;;; Commentary:
;; 
;; Initialy based on dict-web.el by Eric Marsden
;;
;; The definition come from the online dictionary at
;; http://www.francophonie.hachette-livre.fr
;; and is copyrighted by them.
;;
;; Version History
;; 1.0  Initial implementation
;; 1.1  Cleanup and commented for gnu.emacs.source posting
;; 1.2  Removed dependencies on w3
;; 1.3  Some bad codes reworked
;; 1.4  Some debuging.  Change in hachette-fetch-word-at-point
;;
;; TO DO
;;
;; - make it (optionaly) asynchronous so users with slow connection can
;;   continue working while the definition is being fetched.
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;; To use:
;;
;; M-x hachette
;; Prompt for a word (suggesting word at point)
;;
;; M-x hachette-fetch-wotrd-at-point
;; Lookup word at point without prompting.
;; If hachette-use-language-guessing is t and
;; the buffer seem to be in english,
;; using dict-web is proposed.