Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:

> Ok, I was out of the office for three weeks, thinking the entire time
> about how to approach the building of a word processor.
> 
> After spending an ungodly amount of money on various MS Office books and
> really looking at how they look, I realized something: all Office apps share
> the same infrastructure.  There's the document part, and then there's the
> stuff wrapped around it.  

  [...]

> Does this sound reasonable?  Is this the right way to write a word processor?

Forgive me for sounding naive, but shouldn't people be working on
modifying the UI bindings and adding DOM support to an established editor
such as emacs?

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