Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes.

[Oliver Scholz]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Oliver Scholz <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:04:53 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> 2) the data structure used to represent that abstract document
>>    internally
>
> Note that in Emacs, that data structure is the buffer text (with
> associated text properties and any Lisp code that those properties
> evaluate).  This is very important thing to understand: there are no
> data structures built by Emacs from the text it reads except what it
> puts into the buffer.

Fine. In that case Emacs can not become a word processor. Or maybe it
already is: the first "word processor" which supports only the file
formats text/plain and text/enriched.

That means I can stop thinking about implementing word processor
functionality for Emacs right now and go back to use it just as a
programmer's editor.  It is not the application then, that I thought
it would become.

Sorry, for having been a nuisance, then.


    Oliver
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