Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

From: Sam Vilain <sam@hydro.gen.nz>
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| 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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I haven't seen many successful attempts to turn a text editor into a word
processor.  Borland's Sprint was one of the technically better attempts;
and you can probably tell how successful it was commercially.  And even
from a technical standpoint, it behaved rather like using a text editor to
edit a text file with Scribe-ish markup.

Word processors are conceptually different from text editors, and benefit
from being designed from the start as word processors.

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