Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>,  rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:52:48 +0100
> 
> Personally I think Emacs is half-wysiwyg, or more then half by now. I
> think there are almost all tools needed to implement a word processor a
> lá Word already in Emacs; I think there is just some minor details
> needed; like renderer that can draw efficient representation of a page
> below a buffer text (a rectangle) and to tie the text editing stuff to
> pixels rather then columns. I was experimenting with modelling a page in
> Emacs in context of some other discussion, and that was what I found a
> tad bit awkward.
> 
> But I am bad at Elisp, and what Emacs already has, so hopefully Eli will
> step in and say: "we already have this."

I think most of the necessary infrastructure exists indeed.  However,
building a WYSIWYG word processor on top of that is not a trivial job,
although probably not rocket science, either.  I'd start from
enriched.el and took it from there.