From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: pmr@pajato.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, smeuuh@gmail.com,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, joakim@verona.se,
raman@users.sourceforge.net, phil@shellarchive.co.uk
Subject: Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:55:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy723zqh1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KcOEc-0005xi-Cl@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:39:38 -0400")
>> I proposed years ago that we extend Emacs to the point where it can
>> function as a word processor.
> It never struck me as an interesting goal: for one, we already have
> latex-mode for that (i.e. Emacs is the only tool I use for word
> processing, even more so now that I can display the resulting PDF with
> doc-view-mode),
> It sounds like you are editing text with markup commands and viewing
> the formatted results on the side. Of course that works, but most
> people prefer a word processor in which one edits the formatted text.
Maybe most people do, but I'm not sure if most Emacs users do.
> I proposed adding that capability to Emacs so that it would work in
> the mode people generally want.
But even in the event that most Emacs users do, I don't think that
turning Emacs into a WYSIWYG word processor is a good idea. This said,
I do not intend to spend anny more time talking about it, unless someone
actully starts working on such a project (at which point I'll try and
convince him to work on something more likely to be useful).
> It looks like you are proposing a new feature which consists of
> editing HTML and viewng the formatted results on the side. Is that
> correct?
No, I'm not suggesting any new feature, other than the fact that using
something like XEmbed to let something like Firefox render web pages is
a more promising direction than doing the whole rendering in Emacs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-07 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 22:18 An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 0:16 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-09-05 0:19 ` David House
2008-09-05 2:42 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 4:53 ` Paul Michael Reilly
2008-09-05 6:44 ` joakim
2008-09-05 8:53 ` Phil Jackson
2008-09-05 9:21 ` joakim
2008-09-05 9:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-05 11:20 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 7:12 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 10:48 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-06 21:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 21:36 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 22:25 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-06 23:08 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 22:41 ` Sean O'Rourke
2008-09-07 23:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-06 16:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 16:58 ` joakim
2008-09-06 19:42 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-06 20:20 ` David Hansen
2008-09-06 21:54 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-06 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-07 17:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 17:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-09-07 18:29 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 12:31 ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-08 17:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 19:05 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 19:07 ` Antoine Levitt
2008-09-08 20:27 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-08 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-08 21:33 ` joakim
2008-09-08 21:46 ` Thomas Lord
2008-09-09 8:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-08 22:13 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-07 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-09-08 9:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-05 13:33 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 13:32 ` T. V. Raman
2008-09-05 20:40 ` Christian Faulhammer
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