From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes. Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:34:01 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409042358.i84Nwjt19152@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llfn5ihw.fsf@emacswiki.org> <01c49c75$Blat.v2.2.2$7a37cb00@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095432110 12747 80.91.229.6 (17 Sep 2004 14:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: boris@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 17 16:41:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C8JvZ-0006B7-00 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8K1I-0002L2-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:47:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8K19-0002Kv-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:47:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C8K17-0002Kj-PI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C8K17-0002Kg-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C8Juw-0006gl-Ib for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 4634 invoked by uid 65534); 17 Sep 2004 14:34:11 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl-082-082-145-083.arcor-ip.net (EHLO USER-2MOEN8BWBA.gmx.de) (82.82.145.83) by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 17 Sep 2004 16:34:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1497658 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c49c75$Blat.v2.2.2$7a37cb00@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:15:21 +0300") X-Attribution: os X-Face: "HgH2sgK|bfH$; PiOJI6|qUCf.ve<51_Od(%ynHr?=>znn#~#oS>",F%B8&\vus),2AsPYb -n>PgddtGEn}s7kH?7kH{P_~vu?]OvVN^qD(L)>G^gDCl(U9n{:d>'DkilN!_K"eNzjrtI4Ya6; Td% IZGMbJ{lawG+'J>QXPZD&TwWU@^~A}f^zAb[Ru;CT(UA]c& User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27193 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: Oliver Scholz >> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:04:53 +0200 >> Cc: boris@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org >> >> 2) the data structure used to represent that abstract document >> internally > > Note that in Emacs, that data structure is the buffer text (with > associated text properties and any Lisp code that those properties > evaluate). This is very important thing to understand: there are no > data structures built by Emacs from the text it reads except what it > puts into the buffer. Fine. In that case Emacs can not become a word processor. Or maybe it already is: the first "word processor" which supports only the file formats text/plain and text/enriched. That means I can stop thinking about implementing word processor functionality for Emacs right now and go back to use it just as a programmer's editor. It is not the application then, that I thought it would become. Sorry, for having been a nuisance, then. Oliver -- Oliver Scholz Jour du Génie de l'Année 212 de la Révolution Ostendstr. 61 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité! 60314 Frankfurt a. M.