On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 08:10:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:38 on Sunday 22 May 2011, Indi did opine > thusly: > > > It's unfortunate that we don't have small, fast, light, standalone > > programs to deal with the formats of word, excel, powerpoint, etc but > > if we did odds are most people would shun them for a big, bloaty > > office suite anyway. Personally, I'd love it if I could open and edit > > those office formats in vim... > > > What makes you think they don't *already* exist? >
The fact that none of your examples fit the bill. > Small, fast, light, standalone: yeah, they are all there. > Your definition of "small, fast, and light" strikes me as most peculiar. Anything that requires a full-bloat DE (or enoough of its libs it might as well do so) is not "standalone" by any definition, and is unlikely to be "small, fast, and light". I know all things are relative, but be real. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫
