From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Amin Bandali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs/Publishing/WYSIWYG Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 16:44:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87o9gyw5ru.fsf@aminb.org> References: <20180529190939.GC2000@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527632080 28267 195.159.176.226 (29 May 2018 22:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 22:14:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Tim Johnson , Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 30 00:14:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNmt0-0007GA-Ig for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 00:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNmv7-0002VQ-J6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 18:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53302) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlUL-00081I-W6 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:45:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlUI-0004XH-Rb for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:45:02 -0400 Original-Received: from nix.aminb.org ([173.195.146.136]:56282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNlUI-0004Vb-NM for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 16:44:58 -0400 Authentication-Results: auth=pass smtp.auth=amin@aminb.org smtp.mailfrom=amin@aminb.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=aminb.org; s=dkim; t=1527626696; h=from:from:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=RTQTLFjkO9BaCjGeVlBwuMYgAzCg8pvWV5QshwRyS+8=; b=k2gTjEHO1IxXNxvVLK38ww9FGgyFFZMV2QqUoGji+MV7agZn+sigm67OYWpfNgZ5JkDuJo DQ31WGFOQRs3NmvEuHxQc3JuvCSu7nrPqIw+Bm0ZWHiekWCxyYSpGCbhh6yvcJqNxgr5Hd vehyp/XC+sbdhIbUsSM12h+Xe/weKvo= Original-Received: from authenticated-user (PRIMARY_HOSTNAME [PUBLIC_IP]) by nix.aminb.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7BFC3103145; Tue, 29 May 2018 20:44:55 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20180529190939.GC2000@mail.akwebsoft.com> X-Spamd-Bar: / X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 173.195.146.136 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 29 May 2018 18:16:06 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116895 Archived-At: Seconded. I, too, think WYSIWYG capabilities would be useful to have in Emacs, and I'd always appreciate having one less reason to leave Emacs. The subject did come up on emacs-devel back in March, with RMS mentioning [0] that: > However, making progress on Emacs as a word processor is one of my > specific goals. This is what Emacs needs to do to be useful in all > the ways it should be useful. > > It will only take a few more features to make Emacs start to be useful > as a word processor. Once we can do proper formatting of paragraphs > with variable-width text, with a few kinds of alignment, and we can > save these in files, we will be able to use it for writing letters and > handouts, instead of LibreOffice. I'm out of the loop with respect to development on the listed useful features. I'd love to hear more about if anything new has been added and/or what's missing there. [0]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00189.html -amin