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 09:48:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83zjowdghu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5288A59E.7030109@dancol.org> <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87mwl04w3k.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <83zjoyewgn.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvqqi09q.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385106511 6915 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 07:48:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:48:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bzg@gnu.org, ttn@gnu.org, asr@ufl.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 08:48:35 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 1VjlTc-0001ax-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:48:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37361 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlTb-0005I6-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59391) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlTT-0005I1-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlTO-0002tk-4X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:63351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlTH-0002t0-JD; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:48:11 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MWN00F00MTE7J00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:48:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MWN00EXHN09TJ90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:48:09 +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: 80.179.55.166 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:165541 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:54:35 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: eliz@gnu.org, ttn@gnu.org, asr@ufl.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > We could make it easy to export continuously in the background and > display the PDF/ODT part in another window, this way one would really > see what you get, in real time. > > That would require formatting the document very very fast. > The longer the document is, the faster the machine would have to be. To say nothing of the fact that incomplete documents might cause the formatting to fail entirely.