Re: Emacs as word processor

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

        [ 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.

    There are a lot of reactions on this thread that seem somewhat hesitant
    about emacs adding WYSIWIG support, but I suspect it's fear that #2 will
    corrupt the lisp machine interfaces that we already know and
    enjoy... but I doubt that the emacs community would let that happen
    anyway.

Lisp is one of the benefits of Emacs that I wish I had when doing
WYSIWIG word processing.  To abandon that would defeat the whole point
of this.

Perhaps extensions can be used:

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/