From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Andreas <saerdna@hush.com>, Jovelou <jajo@1x.com>,
Jonas <jonas.gustafsson@cgi.com>, Ladbon <ladbon.m@gmail.com>,
Mats <mats.soderstrom@mail.com>, Pebben <patrickbylund@gmail.com>,
Per <per.thastrom@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: two column mode ?
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:40:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9lng5dx.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83mu707zpa.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the two
>> column mode triggered by C-x 6 2. What is the
>> difference with C-x 5 2 ?
>
> Did you read the section in the Emacs manual that
> describes this mode? I think it answers your question.
Does it also address all the drawbacks with this format?
While certainly a technical tour de force _and_ I'm 100%
supportive of the all-freedom notion to do whatever one
likes with one's editor and files, it still makes sense
to have text as plain as "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
and then do formatting and/or post-processing with
whatever tools one prefers, be it HTML or LaTeX or groff
or for that matter no markup whatsoever, just an
external layer of computing to fit anyone's and
everyone's preferences for the intended purpose?
Data wants to be data!
Still, again bows and HATS OFF for this technical
wizardry from author Daniel Pfeiffer and other
contributors to two-column.el.
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
https://dataswamp.org/~incal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-25 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-25 2:47 two column mode ? Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-25 8:09 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-04-25 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 11:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-05-01 9:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-05-01 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 1:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-05-02 0:47 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-05-02 2:18 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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