From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3804"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 17:12:41 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 1ktCBN-0000uN-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:12:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktCBM-0004gO-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40208) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktCAq-0004GY-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:30723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktCAn-0008JZ-EU; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 214424404E9; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id EDE3C4404A7; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:01 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1608999121; bh=PDvUOIvlo724iAuzwqezx7+Q0TtOBo2ZX4xm+ABrY7M=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=l/xlRYtO8Dk4hkL+gafraExXfegnRKN21ZlORHLaB7LCaNdYCRGdIGzMkxz2AqSBF /XNaEoV9Ec5+L2xZR+fwVRw/Y7BYa5dpqEydXxXXKugAKG0CJRLfLf088pYCNT+B9s onq29O+rGql1Cvm+g5/NeYQgQ9MbwG8S4POMlWpiRPb4g2vLMcayLBLMD4c/IAMFB8 0b34KC/S6hF2yQgL3DqkgUD28PKJB16TNaWj7eP2qkr7GXPhu1IwrYGD89Rj8B6JMZ HdbNhTJROFwGPBycBFl57fGz2HoBnFR8RplvUOuJoW7Z7povjieSx4QfAMG+bv+gLU MJbFzHVFOkUWA== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [104.247.243.191]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6DFF1201A6; Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:23:00 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:261858 Archived-At: > I am sure you know what you're talking about, but I've been able to > convince everyone who sends me a document to send it to me in a non-Word > format. Indeed, it's usually easy to do that when the one who sends it wants something from you. OTOH it's often much harder when it's the other way around. Stefan