I've been thinking about this

[Mina]

@clatterfordslim

Surely there is a way of making a text editor do the same as Libre Office or MS Office without the bloat?

There is, check out my post in another thread:

Linux Office Suite Reccomandation (Other Than Libreoffice)

Rethinking the issue, I thought: Who needs an office package anyway, when you have GNU-Emacs, the Swiss army chainsaw of editors already installed on almost amy *nix style operating system? You need prettily formatted text? Emacs’ latex-mode is your friend for creating professional book-publishing grade documents. You need to prepare slides for a presentation? Same. LaTeX already comes with a slides style. Calculations? Emacs’ calc-mode does them for you. If you need to do advanced statistic…