Re: [ jEdit-devel ] ideas for new plugin(s): jEdit office

[Sergey V. U. <ser...@cl...>]

> I don't mean to be rude, but why on earth would you want to do that? 
>MS Word has about the more convoluted and inefficient file format ever
>created.  You want to edit SOURCE CODE with it?  Don't perpetuate the
>bloat, put and end to it.  http://www.raunvis.hi.is/news_story.html

I agree. But in the today's world MS formats just rules our documents.
Let's face it. Not scientists' books and articles, not artists'
masterpieces - the secretaries, managers etc deal with MS formats today.
So if low-level manager (well, team leader) in Java-oriented company
would be able to work with some simple documents directly from his
development environment - what's wrong here? Same applies to techwriters
documenting the code etc. So there is a niche.
I really hate MS dominance. But we live in a real world. Let's promote
XML and other open standards - and make our products useful to general
people.

Regards,

Sergey