Joe Fineman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
