From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:21:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13859"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 05:24:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1krvgz-0003V8-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:24:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37582 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krvgy-0001Xg-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48576) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krveE-0007m5-45 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krveD-0001q3-OH; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1krve7-0002VI-2y; Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:21:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261557 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. ]]] > My impression (but I could very well be wrong) is that what RMS would like > to have is not a truly WYSIWYG word processor that would compete with > LibreOffice, but something simpler. Ideally it would compete with LibreOffice. However, if it can handle editing ODT files the same as LibreOffice, but fails to display them as nicely, that would be a big step along the way. I suspect that displaying ODT files properly requires figuring out exactly how they should render in LibreOffice. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)