From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:19:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kzgy4mp.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666aa5df-8f4b-4bb9-a542-945421c584b9@www.fastmail.com> (era's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:08:14 +0200")
era <era+emacs@iki.fi> writes:
> On the other hand, if the behavior described in the original bug report is still
> current, that's quirky and unexpected. Really, how many people *expect* Emacs to
> be able to open a Word document, and are any of them happy when they get a
> static image to look at in Emacs?
AFAIU, the problem is that we do not have a mode to edit Microsoft
Word documents. It would obviously be fantastic if someone would be
willing to write such a package, but it's a potentially big task.
So, as long as we lack editing capabilities, showing an image of the
document in Emacs is actually pretty useful. More useful than getting
garbled text, at any rate.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-06 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-24 11:19 bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document era+emacs
2019-08-01 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-06 1:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-06 13:08 ` era
2019-11-06 23:19 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-07 4:45 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07 8:29 ` era
2019-11-08 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 20:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 8:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 15:06 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-14 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 7:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 9:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 13:20 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 9:14 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=874kzgy4mp.fsf@marxist.se \
--to=stefan@marxist.se \
--cc=20891@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=era+emacs@iki.fi \
--cc=larsi@gnus.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).