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Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?)
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?) |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:55:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> 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
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), (continued)
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Chong Yidong, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Antoine Levitt, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Thomas Lord, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Antoine Levitt, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Thomas Lord, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Thomas Lord, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), joakim, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/09
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/08
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), T. V. Raman, 2008/09/05
- Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), T. V. Raman, 2008/09/05
Re: An Emacs plug-in for a browser (Firefox?), Christian Faulhammer, 2008/09/05