Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:
> Le 23/05/2016 19:49, Jaromil a écrit :
>> I have no use for a PDF
>> viewer that can't print. Else I'd just use Emacs for that too ;^)
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>     Indeed it does! I didn't even thought to try that. Looks like one
> of these useless features in Emacs, given the number of pdf viewers,
> or is it that Emacs wants to become a DE by itself. I read once it can
> also send mails, and it can act as an IDE. I use it only to edit files
> - and for Dr psychologist :-)

Emacs is a somewhat old-fashioned/ traditional[*] Lisp implemenation
with some built-in support for text editing. Which implies one can write
applications for it. The 'IDE' features (except SCM integration) are
IMHO less useful, at least for me, as my development environment is
usually 'disintegrated' --- the files I'm editing almost never reside on
the machine the editor runs on but (literally) anywhere else on the
globe. But I've been using Gnus for USENET and e-mail since some time in
1999 an I'm very happy with it (no sub-standard text editors for writing
text, not even mails!). More recently, I've also started using an elisp
IRC client as my employer as dropped Skype for 'team chats' (great
improvement).