mw-thesaurus.el

> it is adequate for a wide variety of tasks Is it though? Like for example, I often deal with Org-mode documents of several thousand lines of text and I honestly don't know any piece of software that can acceptably handle multi-thousand lines of markdown. Emacs/Org-mode has tons of different ways to navigate and search through these large bodies - the outline nature of the structure is perfect for that - there's narrowing, collapsing/expanding, sparse-tree search, flexible sorting, indirect buffers, imenu, overlays and text properties that can render the text conditionally, etc. I read HN and Reddit threads in Org-mode format¹; I browse my Jira board and tickets in Org-mode², I have Wiktionary lookup³ and Thesaurus⁴ - all in Org-mode. ¹ https://youtu.be/ud3Gmxg5UZg ² https://github.com/agzam/go-jira.el ³ https://github.com/agzam/wiktion

I've spent a fair amount of time researching all of the existing online options and the Collins English Thesaurus is by far one of the best: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english-thes... They also still offer a generous free-tier for their API, unlike Oxford, which discontinued its free-tier after introducing version 2 of their API. When I find some more free time, I plan to modify the org-mode emacs package for the Merriam-Webster's thesaurus to use the Collins API: https://github.com/agzam/mw-thesaurus.el Carefulwords.com looks nice and improves on existing website-based thesauri in terms of usability, but for many writers, having the thesaurus built into their writing tool (e.g., emacs) is a far more efficient option.