Re: Towards a WYSIWYG word processing (was: What improvements would be truly useful?)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Yates <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 11:02:38 -0500
> Cc: John Wiegley <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Richard Stallman 
> <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> 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?
> 
> The former is merely some subset of the Emacs community scratching
> an itch.  The latter would represent a strategic initiative.

Time will tell.  For now, neither seems to be lifting off the ground.
IME, nothing serious in Emacs gets done without a motivated and
capable individual who just starts doing that.  And it doesn't look
like we have one for this job yet.