From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: enriched-mode and switching major modes. Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:05:50 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200409042358.i84Nwjt19152@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87llfn5ihw.fsf@emacswiki.org> <01c49c75$Blat.v2.2.2$7a37cb00@zahav.net.il> <01c49d70$Blat.v2.2.2$f7cfb860@zahav.net.il> <01c49da7$Blat.v2.2.2$cd5f7160@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095638830 29666 80.91.229.6 (20 Sep 2004 00:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: boris@gnu.org, alkibiades@gmx.de, eliz@gnu.org, alex@emacswiki.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 02:07:03 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9Bhv-0005fF-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:07:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9Bnm-0005db-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9Bmu-00054d-29 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C9Bmo-00050J-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9Bmo-0004za-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C9Bgm-0007vX-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1C9Bgk-0000Fi-VR; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:05:51 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:27292 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:27292 With the current emacs display engine, there is no way to display something simple like AAAbbbbbbb AAAccccccc The best emacs can do is: AAAbbbbbbb AAA ccccccc as it has a primitive "no overlapping line" display model. In a word processor, what constructs would give you something like that? I have no idea what HTML constructs could produce such a layout; if there is a way, it must go beyond the simple HTML markup that I know. It seems to me that Emacs would be an adequate word processor for editing things like manuals, and web pages that are mainly substance, even if it could not do anything like this.