Re: Boldface typing

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:59:31 AM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon 
> wrote:
>> twlllmxxx  writes:
>> 
>> > Just learning emacs. Editing text,
>> 
>> Ok.  So what is a text file?
>> 
>> 
>> > I want to type a word in boldface
>> > and then go back to default. So I use M-o b and type in boldface, then
>> > M-o d and continue typing. It looks right: one word in boldface and
>> > the rest in default. Then I save the file. Then I re-open it, and the
>> > boldface is gone. Maybe I made a mistake. I repeat the editing, save
>> > the file, and then re-open it. Again the boldface is gone. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > I'm working from Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron et al., O'Reilly.
>> >
>> > This is GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).
>> 
>> 
>> Use M-x enriched-mode RET first.  Then you will save not a text file,
>> but an enriched-text file.
>
> If what you need is a word processor you should use that -- eg libreoffice, 
> MSWord etc

No, definitely no!

If you need a word processor, you should do as RMS said: extend emacs to
include a word processor in it!


> emacs does a rather poor job of word processing

How do you know?  The program isn't even written yet!


> The solution in the emacs/unix world 20 years ago was latex/groff etc -- ie
> document processors

Of course, that'd be better.  Notice that this is exactly what
enriched-text is: tagged text (html-like).


> Today the goto-solution for this (and 1000 other things) in emacs-land is org 
> mode.
> It does have a long learning curve though...


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