From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <86578165-1b41-e75c-7180-84d8edefc44b@grinta.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520369876 13761 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 20:57:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: daniele@grinta.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 21:57:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etJeI-0000Ux-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:57:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJgL-0000WP-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49353) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJYj-0002mx-Tm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJYj-0006rp-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55304) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJYY-0006fF-S9; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJYY-00026v-DS; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:51:30 -0500 In-reply-to: (johnw@gnu.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223374 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. ]]] I don't use Emacs for writing such > documents, nor would having variable width support by itself grant all the > other features such users have come to expect from modern Word Processors. You're correct in observing that to make Emacs work as a word processor requires adding a number of features. A single added feature won't reach that point. A few features, well chosen, WILL reach that point, and then we will see people using Emacs as a word processor. Thus, I picked one of these features, one which we certainly need, and asked people to implement it in a user-usable way. When that's done, we can add another word-processing feature, and another, and soon people will start using Emacs for some simple cases of word processing. Some simple cases, such as letters, are not very many features away. I am sure we could get there this year. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.