From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8761rrigqe.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqk5bbri.fsf@pank.iue.private> <87iovowmep.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384972554 13676 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2013 18:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:35:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sivaram Neelakantan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 20 19:35:58 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 1VjCd2-0004Hi-3h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:35:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56386 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd1-0001JU-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcu-0001Fz-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCct-0002BP-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45403) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCct-0002BL-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCcs-00082B-Q3; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:46 -0500 In-reply-to: <87iovowmep.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Sivaram Neelakantan on Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:58:46 +0530) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:165448 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Have you seen the preview option of AucTeX? It renders the equations and images referenced in the .tex file inline as you type it in. Would that be a direction in which you'd want the WYSIWYG feature to go. Write in some markup and have a real time buffer render it immediately as you type? It would be a step forward, but if the user needs to know the markup language, it will require a lot more learning a than ordinry WYSIWYG word processors do. Also, format compatibility is very important. Could it be provided in this mode? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.