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: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2lrczi7.fsf@gnu.org> <8338mmcsd9.fsf@gnu.org> <83txf1blf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87txf133yd.fsf@zigzag.favinet> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385424260 18365 80.91.229.3 (26 Nov 2013 00:04:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 26 01:04:27 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 1Vl68c-0000uC-Br for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 01:04:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl68b-0002y1-QG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl68Z-0002xu-84 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl68X-0001TY-Fu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl68X-0001TU-CM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vl68X-0004jM-0P; Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:04:17 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:06:22 +0700) 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:165730 Archived-At: [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. Now, problems arise when characters *do* have explicit character-level formatting that is visually indistinguishable from the base paragraph font. Such text *will* carry the font with it when copied and pasted, giving the user the feeling of unpredictability and not being in control. If it is no worse in Emacs than it is in the other word processors people are used to, we can live with it. -- 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.