From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:19:42 +0100 Message-ID: <874kzgy4mp.fsf@marxist.se> References: <1435144758.2326415.306422097.2EE346E7@webmail.messagingengine.com> <875zngd2v4.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87pni54vou.fsf@marxist.se> <666aa5df-8f4b-4bb9-a542-945421c584b9@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="256076"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen , 20891@debbugs.gnu.org To: era Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 07 00:20:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iSUb4-0014Ur-27 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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d=marxist.se; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=MrjxRej0cWSsyWw+SZ2mKGIygc1YXAs/dk0v+W8IrBc=; b=ReuZkXZYANsAQeuLjKz6CTLJIV qM3Y2o/FWhU4xYU9wjD+wL7NQk3LXKwKOR5DqcTTFIRdDpS+xi3iuIfcmCmgrS+ljJoxG/+DmLKk6 hhfIsHmimSfMHfYO7C69yGwmfUO1lEVBPGs/Um9GlxiZjgaknAP+qmvv2d9Fea6Lg8aY=; Original-Received: from h-70-69.a785.priv.bahnhof.se ([155.4.70.69]:33848 helo=localhost) by host.gofardesign.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iSUaW-0005wI-9E; Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:19:45 -0600 In-Reply-To: <666aa5df-8f4b-4bb9-a542-945421c584b9@www.fastmail.com> (era's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:08:14 +0200") X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.gofardesign.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marxist.se X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: host.gofardesign.uk: authenticated_id: stefan@marxist.se X-Authenticated-Sender: host.gofardesign.uk: stefan@marxist.se X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171053 Archived-At: era 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