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Article #2124Re: wordprocessors
From: Matthias Warkus
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:00
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PILCH Hartmut schrieb: > > cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne) writes: > > >The notion of being able to push functionality out of Emacs into > >separate daemon processes would be *really* rather worthwhile. Which > >has very little to do, of course, with Gtk... > > Is any work going on on having a character input method daemon > (for all non-latin character sets, especially Chinese-based) that > will form a part of all desktops? > > Emacs/Mule realized some ideas of this sort, but I have never seen them > extended to become a part of the whole desktop. > > This, and the availability of TTF fonts on the desktop, seem to be two > bottleneck areas that currently disqualify Linux for many uses. Aren't they going to move to Unicode (read Flag Day) with GNU Emacs, IIRC, 21? Anyway, 20.x is a transitional release. They are going to settle down on something else. mawa -- mailto:mawa@iname.com | ACME Frob Coil Oil ... makes bits go faster! My site was cracked by some obscene idiots this summer. It will go up on another server soon. 'mawaspace' on Angelfire is not mine anymore. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT/U d-(--) s:- a--- C++(++++)>$ P+(--) L++>++++>$ E++>+++ W++(-) N++ o? K w---(+) >M+ V-- PS+(++) PE(-)(--) Y+>++ >PGP++ t+(---)@ 5>+ X-@ >R+++@ tv(+) b+++(++++)>$ >DI+ D(--)(---) G++ e@(*)>++++ h! !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e6b9,8c7fcc64bcdfebec X-Google-Attributes: gid10e6b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f6185991d146db2c X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,f6185991d146db2c X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: mawarkus@t-online.de (Matthias Warkus) Subject: Re: wordprocessors Date: 1998/09/24 Message-ID: <6ue7u4$306$3@news02.btx.dtag.de> X-Deja-AN: 394501450 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <timleeEz3uMp.n4G@netcom.com> <35F95D88.274013C@pegasus.rutgers.edu> <35f9858d.3249212@news.tiac.net> <35F9915C.9687910A@pegasus.rutgers.edu> <87ogslojj6.fsf@ivm.de> <xJEK1.43850$435.18224670@news.rdc1.az.home.com> <WaJK1.2479$F7.10475772@news.itd.umich.edu> <6tm5ib$bd1$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <EzCFq0.7Dp@a2e.de> <3602c182.1204175@news.supernews.com> <slrn6vvlce.cdk.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <EzF22w.1GE@a2e.de> <slrn7034a8.k82.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <EzIvwn.1uK@a2e.de> <slrn707mvo.too.dblake@209-142-17-94.oak.inreach.net> <slrn707nbu.8op.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <xzqiuijzpkb.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <slrn708mbt.nvm.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <6u8p94$8ij$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <slrn70g0ao.jev.treed@freeside.ultraviolet.org> <6u9fh2$7ge$3@blue.hex.net> <slrn70giqk.jev.treed@freeside.ultraviolet.org> <6ub812$lh0$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> <m2vhmeha54.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <6uc2ps$jh1$9@blue.hex.net> <EzsAD0.It@a2e.de> X-Sender: 320034048390-0001@t-online.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Royal Space Navy / Question Mark Software Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mawa@iname.com Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.emacs