From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:56:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83ob5ccoct.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5288A59E.7030109@dancol.org> <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mwl04w3k.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <87iovo4caz.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <877gc14vzs.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <878uwhxnqe.fsf@informatimago.com> <83txf4cw9z.fsf@gnu.org> <528F77B8.9090602@lanl.gov> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385142974 24583 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 17:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pjb@informatimago.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Davis Herring Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 18:56:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjuxm-0002Nj-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:56:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40358 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjuxm-0007YK-Fc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjuxf-0007Y4-AY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjuxT-00057k-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:56:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:54034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjuxS-00057Y-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MWO00J00F1S6900@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:55:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MWO00IRQF59VE80@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:55:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <528F77B8.9090602@lanl.gov> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165571 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:26:48 -0700 > From: Davis Herring > CC: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Isn't a "style" just another word for a "face"? > > No, because it can include things like paragraph indentation and > language choice (for spell check). Which is exactly the problem many users have with styles. So IMO we shouldn't repeat those UI mistakes in Emacs, and keep these separated.