From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs documentation. Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:05:28 -0600 Message-ID: References: <85ve9t6y1n.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20070929220426.GB1894@muc.de> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191105005 32242 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2007 22:30:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:30:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 30 00:30:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ibkoy-0002K6-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:30:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibkou-0004Ox-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:29:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibkoe-0004Lv-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibkod-0004Kj-6c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:29:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ibkoc-0004Kg-Tv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ibkoc-0001EJ-IM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IbkoP-0005Ts-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:29:25 +0000 Original-Received: from 207.189.193.185 ([207.189.193.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:29:25 +0000 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.193.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:29:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.193.185 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yifnm3NE2ar8pjLEuySHgSimprE= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47990 Archived-At: >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Mackenzie writes: Alan> I didn't express myself very well. I think what I meant by Alan> "special purpose editor" was one that interprets the XML data Alan> structure and hides it from the user, much like Open Office does Alan> with ODF. This is sort of a diversion, but I've heard talk from time to time about writing such an editor as an Emacs mode. As an existing example, there's `enriched.el'. (Open etc/enriched.doc for an example, or look at it with find-file-literally to see the contents as they appear on disk.) A full ODF editor would be a major undertaking. Tom