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Re: Emacs as word processor
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:54:30 -0500 |
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To be frank, I think your goals for this feature are incoherent. You
say you want non-Emacs users to use Emacs, then you turn around and
deprecate exactly those features of this project (Word file-format
compatibility, *Office-alike UI).
I think you misunderstood what I said.
I said that people should not send Word files. That is a different
question from whether we should handle that format. I think we should.
What I said about the UI is that surely it would not be so similar
that people would get confused. To make them similar would be a
tremendous additional job.
I don't think we need to do that. People can adapt to different UI
details. (It would be a much smaller adaptation than adapting to
today's Emacs.) However, people could eventually work on that if they
want to.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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