Re: Emacs/Publishing/WYSIWYG

[Amin Bandali]

Seconded.

I, too, think WYSIWYG capabilities would be useful to have in Emacs,
and I'd always appreciate having one less reason to leave Emacs.

The subject did come up on emacs-devel back in March, with RMS
mentioning [0] that:

> However, making progress on Emacs as a word processor is one of my
> specific goals.  This is what Emacs needs to do to be useful in all
> the ways it should be useful.
> 
> It will only take a few more features to make Emacs start to be useful
> as a word processor.  Once we can do proper formatting of paragraphs
> with variable-width text, with a few kinds of alignment, and we can
> save these in files, we will be able to use it for writing letters and
> handouts, instead of LibreOffice.

I'm out of the loop with respect to development on the listed useful
features.  I'd love to hear more about if anything new has been added
and/or what's missing there.


[0]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00189.html

-amin