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Re: Emacs will never be a WYSIWYG-editor and should not try to


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Emacs will never be a WYSIWYG-editor and should not try to
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:27:19 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> I do claim that you can not think of turning GNU/Emacs in a WYSIWYG
>> text processing machine without multi-threading.
>
> I don't see the connection between these two.

Indeed, all the great old WYSIWIG word processors were written without
multithreading. Xerox 860 IPS (CP/M), LisaWrite (The Lisa operating
system featured cooperative (non-preemptive) multitasking […]), MacWrite
(MacOS), etc.


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