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> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:03:04 +0000
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > I've been trying for more than 10 years to urge people to work toward 
> > giving Emacs the document capabilities of a word processor, but I have 
> > not convinced people to do this work.
> 
> What do you mean by this?  I'm probably biased, but I don't see what 
> important "capability of a word processor" is lacking in Emacs.

The WYSIWYG part is missing.  See the etc/TODO entry about that for
a pointer to a discussion about this.