From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:20 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> <838s9kn8vx.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13836"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 06:40:57 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOnZ-0003TV-0I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40936 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOnX-0001Jo-TF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOl4-0006cS-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45389) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOl3-0003Io-O3; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:21 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ktOl2-0006pD-1b; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 00:38:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <838s9kn8vx.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:45:22 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261887 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. ]]] > > I am sure you know what you're talking about, but I've been able to > > convince everyone who sends me a document to send it to me in a non-Word > > format. > > > > So you should not give up without an effort. > I didn't. I am glad you didn't. I am urging others to give it a good try, too. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)