Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> writes:
On 23 March 2014 23:08, lee <lee(a)yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
>> There is no-one on the planet who thinks emacs is minimalistic
>
> I`m not so sure about that. There are even ppl who have never heard
> about emacs, and if they`d see it, they might very well think it is.
>
"Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping" This is a program which has the
reputation of having a module for everything. Why are people who have
never heard of it relevant?
Because their existence disproves that nobody thinks that emacs is
minimalistic.
> Even if they don`t, I can still edit them and make adjustments
if
> necessary. If anything fails, I can print the sources as they are. Had
> I used some WYSIWYG word processing software instead, I wouldn`t even be
> able to read them anymore because this word processing software doesn`t
> exist anymore since a long time.
>
Yes plain LaTeX is fairly readable in source form, but that's not an
absolute requirement for being future proof. Educate yourself on ODF.
You could even get the plain text out.
ODF didn`t exist twenty years ago.
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