Re: SEUL: Boring word processors

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

> 
> Attracting developers to something actually useful, not merely
> intellectually stimulating, would be a good thing.
> 
> However, I find it difficult to believe that Free Software Developers all
> think that Word Processors are boring, since Emacs was one of the first GNU
> utilities; it's better than it's contemporary WordStar (or so I've heard;
> I'm a "vi" man myself, and I managed to avoid WordStar before it became
> obsolete) ... and there seem to be lots of free small word processors of
> the text-mode era (vim, pico, jed,).
> 

Emacs is not a word processor.  It is an editor: the primary tool for
a programmer.  In contrast MS World has nice formatting features but
its search and replace features are minimal not to mention the fact
than its formatting marks would make compilers choke.

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			Jean Francois Martinez

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