Re: Emacs as word processor

[Richard Stallman]

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    - awareness of current-column as a float
      I started working on this in 2002, but got distracted.
      The (small, exploratory) changes were reverted 2011-03-06.

    - correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen

    - floating (text "flows" around) images, tables, and other "objects"

    - automatic pagination

    - page-based stats (word-count, etc), margins, "styles"

These seem like important features, I agree.

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