Re: [libreoffice-users] emacs mode?

anthropornis <anthropornis@gmail.com> writes:

> I am curious, which, if any, word processing programs (not text
> editors) actually have an Emacs "mode"?

Oh I would like to know that, too :)

> Compared to the broader base of non-techie word processor users,
> making a word processor behave like Emacs would be extraordinarily
> niche oriented.

To me, there´s quite a difference between "make application A (behave)
like application B" and "be able to define (some frequently used) key
bindings in application A to be the same ones as in application B for
the same functionality". Do you want, for example, your MUA behave like
the spreadsheet in LO --- or would you rather have the same key binding
in your MUA and in your spreadsheet for saving your work?

The latter isn´t a new idea. And isn´t LO "extraordinarily niche
orientated" in beeing programmable with it´s own programming language
--- or is it more like emacs in that regard than people happen to
notice?

> Why don't you just actually write documents in Emacs and do some LaTex
> or similar formatting like some other Emacs users do?

It´s because I´m not sufficiently familiar with LaTeX to always get the
result I want with LaTeX with the same amount of effort I can get the
result with LO. It has been the other way round as well. It´s only a
matter of chosing the right tool for the job --- and if I could adjust
the key bindings in LO to what I use in emacs, I could make the job
even easier for me.

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