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Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis?
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Tim X |
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Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? |
Date: |
Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:27:10 +1000 |
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Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
> me@privacy.net writes:
>
>> I'm curious what you do with emacs
>
> All personal & business writing & recordkeeping.
>
>> and gNus
>
> Email & newsgroups.
>
> Things I cannot yet do with Emacs:
>
> 1. Deal with the Web. I use w3m for one site that is all text, but
> it is rather clunky, and I have not yet found out how to access
> graphics with it.
>
Yes, this is an area where emacs is not as good as I wish. I use a
combination of w3m and w3. However, you can use the browse-url package
so that when you click on links or open html files, it all happens in
firefox (or mozilla or gaeleaon or whatever).
> 2. Edit Word .doc files. I wish someone would reverse-engineer Word
> to the extent of making it possible to edit the files in Emacs
> without corrupting them.
Yes, word can be a bit of an issue. I use wv to convert word files
into either text or html. However, I noticed on the gnu.emacs.sources
list the other day someone is working on an ODF (open document format)
for emacs - this is what open office uses. Ultimately, this could
allow you to create documents in emacs and then use open office to
convert them into word files.
Personally, I tell people not to send me word documents and when they
do, I tell them they need to convert them into pdf or some other open
format if they want me to read them. Not always a popular thing to do,
but so far I've managed to get away with it.
> --
Tim
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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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