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: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:45:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83iov54ymh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87li022ml2.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386092768 29187 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2013 17:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 17:46:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: hendrik@topoi.pooq.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kjambunathan@gmail.com, Rene@kyllingstad.com To: "T.V. Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 03 18:46:09 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 1Vnu2y-0000tg-Hw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:46:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnu2y-0003fK-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:46:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnu2o-0003bS-9S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnu2f-0001EK-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:56438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnu2e-0001ED-K0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:45:49 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MX800300RVVP200@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:45:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MX8003Y7RZNGE70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:45:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:166045 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:32:33 -0800 > From: "T.V. Raman" > > In the long run, I believe all of markdown, org, rst and any > other form of text files with some level of embedded markup will > survive the test of time in the following sense: > > 1. Content created using these will survive and be usable 20 > years from now even if those specific processors disappear. > > I fail to hold the same confidence about word-processor formats, > even if those choose XML as a serialization -- though at one > point I hoped that XML would indeed help move that ball > forward. I don't see why: the Office formats introduced in 1997 are still very much usable today, 16 years later, even though a new format was introduced in 2007.