Sujet : Re: Unicode in strings
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 04. Jun 2024, 02:36:52
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On Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:50:28 -0400, Josh Vanderhoof wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Fri, 31 May 2024 12:55:59 -0500, BGB wrote:
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On 5/31/2024 12:21 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
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In a modern text editor, one can paste in {*.xls tables, *.jpg,
*.gif, ..} along with text from different fonts and different
backgrounds on a per character basis.
Errm, I think we call this a word processor, not a text editor.
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Emacs has things called “text attributes” and “overlays”, for doing
precisely this sort of thing. You can even use these things to define
clickable buttons. Yet nobody would call Emacs a “word processor”.
RMS did call it a word processor.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html
No he didn’t: “more features are still needed” to “extend Emacs to do
WYSIWYG word processing”. So he admits it’s not doing that yet.