From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Rogers Subject: Re: The statement on what is orgmode. Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:32:17 -0800 Message-ID: <86mwxntylq.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20121205222817.GA1243@panahar> <87hao06km3.fsf@pank.eu> <20121206032633.GA12314@panahar> <20121206230457.GA19292@panahar> <874njy93eh.fsf@gmail.com> <20121207010052.GB24269@panahar> <86sj7itfed.fsf@davidrogersmusic.ca> <272ABB5B-0C0A-412D-B3D6-C51810C28EDE@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThcJD-0001Bn-Be for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:32:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThcJB-0004Eh-SY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:32:23 -0500 Received: from mail-da0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:35648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ThcJB-0004Ed-LP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:32:21 -0500 Received: by mail-da0-f41.google.com with SMTP id e20so780025dak.0 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:32:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <272ABB5B-0C0A-412D-B3D6-C51810C28EDE@gmail.com> (Ivan Andrus's message of "Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:46:27 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Ivan Andrus writes: > On Dec 7, 2012, at 9:50 AM, David Rogers wrote: >> And how about fantasy-but-would-be-really-useful features? Nearly unlimited. >> >> - Fully-functioning, practical Org-mode & Gnus & Emacs on a touch screen > > Would Emacs be Emacs without 5 modifier keys? > >> - Optical character recognition within Emacs > > http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/info/emacspeak_002docr.html Unfortunately, implements everything to do with OCR... except the important part. :) (Try our new OCR application! To make it run, all you have to do is write your own OCR engine!) :P >> - Text entry by voice (including programming languages) within Emacs > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeechToText Cool, I had no idea. >> - Hand-written text entry directly into Emacs, including filling in >> web forms > > Maybe if you speak Chinese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6l8gDaYzQ > > >> And then comes the truly unlimited category of "What, are you crazy???" > > Yes, Emacs users are crazy! > >> - Emacs Movie Editor > > Maybe you haven't heard of https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gneve/ > ? I was originally going to just reply with just this link, but then > I did some searching and found the rest. Here again I had no idea. > >> - Emacs Music Recording Studio > > Not a studio, but maybe a step in the right direction: > http://emacswiki.org/emacs/erec.el > >> - Emacs Audio-To-Text Song Lyrics Transcriber > > This one seems very hard, and in fact I could not find anyone who has > tried. This task is not easy for a lot of humans. No surprise that it's hard for machines that don't even understand spoken language. (Code that transcribes music notation from a recording would be even more difficult and even more spectacular - but of course has nothing to do with Emacs, except in the sense that Emacs has something to do with nearly everything.) :) -- David