Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Daniel Martín]

Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

>>
>> 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.

Something that works like LibreOffice, where you can write a document,
select parts of it, mark them in bold, justify them, etc.  All of that
while you see the results in a WYSIWYG fashion.  The closest thing there
is now is enriched-mode, but that mode does not offer the same level of
features as LibreOffice.

There is more context about this potential new feature in /etc/TODO
under the section "Emacs as a word processor".