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29.1; Dictionary-search on Windows : wrong-type-argument stringp nil in dictionary-read-reply-and-split()

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul van Gelder <paul.vangelder <at> xs4all.nl>
Cc: 65629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65629: 29.1; Dictionary-search on Windows : wrong-type-argument stringp nil in dictionary-read-reply-and-split()
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:56:46 +0300

> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:57:02 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Paul van Gelder <paul.vangelder <at> xs4all.nl>
> 
> The following bug occurs/doesn't occur as follows, which makes me think it may be due to Windows OS:
> - Windows, emacs 29.1, my config -> bug
> - Windows, emacs 29.1, -Q -> bug
> - MacOS, emacs 30.0.50, -Q -> no bug, works fine
> 
> When I start emacs -Q, I do the following to reliably recreate the bug:
> M-x dictionary-search RET Hello RET

I cannot reproduce this on MS-Windows.  When I try the above, Emacs
first tries to connect to a local server:

  Opening connection to localhost:2628

Then it says:

  Failed to open server localhost, continue with dict.org? (y or n)

I answer 'y', and then:

  Opening connection to dict.org:2628
  Searching for Hello in *

and next I see 4 definitions it finds.

So I wonder what goes wrong in your case.  Is your Internet connection
working on the Windows machine? is port 2628 blocked by some firewall,
per chance?

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