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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: era <era+emacs@iki.fi>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 20891@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:19:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kzgy4mp.fsf@marxist.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <666aa5df-8f4b-4bb9-a542-945421c584b9@www.fastmail.com> (era's message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:08:14 +0200")

era <era+emacs@iki.fi> writes:

> On the other hand, if the behavior described in the original bug report is still
> current, that's quirky and unexpected. Really, how many people *expect* Emacs to
> be able to open a Word document, and are any of them happy when they get a
> static image to look at in Emacs?

AFAIU, the problem is that we do not have a mode to edit Microsoft
Word documents.  It would obviously be fantastic if someone would be
willing to write such a package, but it's a potentially big task.

So, as long as we lack editing capabilities, showing an image of the
document in Emacs is actually pretty useful.  More useful than getting
garbled text, at any rate.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-06 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-24 11:19 bug#20891: emacs: Back off if .doc is not an Office document era+emacs
2019-08-01 20:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-06  1:53   ` Stefan Kangas
2019-11-06 13:08     ` era
2019-11-06 23:19       ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-11-07  4:45         ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-07  8:29           ` era
2019-11-08 20:59     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-09  6:25       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 20:14         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14  8:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14  9:55             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-14 14:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 15:06                 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-14 16:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 16:33                     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 16:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15  7:51                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15  8:48                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15  8:56                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15  9:51                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 13:20                                 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15  9:14                         ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15  7:50                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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