From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?) Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83d10freh8.fsf@gnu.org> <83d10epu31.fsf@gnu.org> <831sguppsd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520540825 8661 195.159.176.226 (8 Mar 2018 20:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 20:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, johnw@gnu.org, daniele@grinta.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 08 21:27:01 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1eu27w-00028A-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:27:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu29z-0004BB-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1rO-0004vX-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1rN-00042V-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1rE-0003uG-UI; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eu1rE-0004eO-DZ; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:09:44 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Yates on Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:02:38 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:223514 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > In a sense that goes to the heart of the undertaking. Does it hope > merely to make it possible for users who have already committed to > Emacs to carry out an incrementally larger portion of their authoring > activities within that familiar environment? Or does it hope to attract > users for whom WYSIWYG editing represents a more dominant portion > of their authoring activities? I hope it will eventually do the latter. But since our changes are implemented one feature at a time, I think it is best to start with the former. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.