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 13:35:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5288A59E.7030109@dancol.org> <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mwl04w3k.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384972626 14549 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2013 18:37:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 18:37:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: asr@ufl.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Thien-Thi Nguyen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 20 19:37:12 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 1VjCeG-0004xf-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:37:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56396 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCeG-000314-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCdB-0001eb-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd8-0002GL-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd1-0002DY-0q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjCd0-00085c-GS; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:54 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mwl04w3k.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:46:55 +0100) 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:165452 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. - awareness of current-column as a float I started working on this in 2002, but got distracted. The (small, exploratory) changes were reverted 2011-03-06. - correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen - floating (text "flows" around) images, tables, and other "objects" - automatic pagination - page-based stats (word-count, etc), margins, "styles" These seem like important features, I agree. -- 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.