From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bastien Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:52:37 +0100 Message-ID: <8738moub3u.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> 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> <83zjowdghu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385106785 9849 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 07:53:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ttn@gnu.org, asr@ufl.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 08:53:09 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 1VjlY5-0003e8-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:53:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlY5-0006s8-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:53:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60995) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlXy-0006rw-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:53:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlXt-0004Uy-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]:38151) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjlXl-0004Te-SZ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 02:52:50 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id u56so768246wes.37 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:52:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:user-agent:date :message-id:mime-version:content-type; bh=cM30EQrpP0ctONZ60tNMn+B3u7xTDsZ3fVMOJp7WtiE=; b=Yjs7VhEmQShpzPrYz0L0ol6T/wWPujj1WKH8F3Z9BuzgHKBhdoTZUnX+xn8MTQlkVu YGtcI5uiG1MaDbrhyYkBp5e4+/bIcG1033mc/ef0f2285dsIV6+WFMUYX+A7fcFuQhhO tn2iT9/G160NBhG0FESWpsH2NnkGdV/CZOUG94H4FTt7Z1YWHskCxrsBTqtzexEzGqor X3w18ULh2i1YO0dp04QKEF6Iuda++QaucmlM6sEON4KAfb8Z9TZ3WmC29iPPWLQaGby0 eL7eOJvqZcWbI9wIVG7GFWc7BPhd7Rund/lZWPnsz2TUfVXdgmYN6bGC9MMuAAMs7F8/ sJxQ== X-Received: by 10.180.212.98 with SMTP id nj2mr1436573wic.52.1385106767961; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:52:47 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from bzg.localdomain (mar75-2-81-56-68-112.fbx.proxad.net. [81.56.68.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id b7sm13373207wiz.8.2013.11.21.23.52.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 23:52:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by bzg.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 635101C20883; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:52:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83zjowdghu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:48:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c03::232 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:165543 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. That's true. Still, we already can preview LaTeX snippets within the Org buffer, and there must be some neat previewing in another window that stands between previewing small snippets and getting a fully exported doc. I will see what we can do to reach this "something inbetween", as it seems to be an interesting and useful goal /per se/. -- Bastien