From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7495 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: How many use eMacs and Gnus on daily basis? Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:27:10 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87mzcmka3l.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149842419 15063 80.91.229.2 (9 Jun 2006 08:40:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 09 10:40:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FocXQ-0002tY-7B for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:40:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FocXP-0007sm-OD for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:40:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-15!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qqKO5ZADY5DfzE3utJTIpuWkZc4= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 46 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77680 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7495 Archived-At: Joe Fineman writes: > me@privacy.net 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