Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Sam Vilain wrote:

> I think a word processor is merely an editor with a few slight adjustments
> to it's behaviour to make it more easy to handle language.  Emacs gives us
> this already with it's buffers and modes - why re-invent the wheel to
> provide a word processor that will be years behind in basic editing
> features?

Because I want to.  If I wanted to modify Emacs, then that is what I
would do.  If you want to see Emacs modified in this way, then why don't
you do it?

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