From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jefferson Carpenter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What improvements would be truly useful? 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([2601:441:8680:4631:ecd0:a4aa:6a04:1146]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 13sm14087072ioh.38.2018.03.08.01.16.33 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Mar 2018 01:16:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::233 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223434 On 3/7/2018 10:45 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I am really looking forward to this. LibreOffice is free software, >> and it's ethical, but it isn't Emacs. > > IMO the essence of WYSIWYG makes it "not Emacs". I'd like to be able to > usefully edit .odt documents with Emacs, but not in a WYSIWYG fashion. > > > Stefan > > Agreed. I like latex-preview-pane's format of "WYSIWYG" editing. You edit the code in one buffer, and see a rendered preview in another buffer. It is not critical that the preview even be an emacs buffer - it could be another application. Jefferson