From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Emacs as word processor Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:51 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384673330 6150 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2013 07:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 07:28:50 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 17 08:28:57 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 1Vhwmv-00081g-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:28:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhwmu-0006Nk-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49625) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhwmr-0006Iz-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhwmq-0000nz-CH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36679) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhwmq-0000nv-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vhwmp-0001x4-Pa; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 02:28:51 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:165291 Archived-At: 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing. That is why we added text properties and variable width fonts. However, more features are still needed to achieve this. Could people please start working on the features that are needed? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.