Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Richard Stallman]

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  >  There is need to tell Emacs: "I wish a buffer of this pixel
  > width and height".

LibreOffice doesn't ask that question, and it lets you start editing
text and knows what size to use by default for the page.
I suggest looking at what it does.

One interesting question is how to make text flow between pages.  In
Emacs, a page boundary is a ^L character (formfeed).  To make text
flow between pages would require deleting and inserting ^L characters
as needed.  Is that workable?

(I remember when ^L made the line printer skip to the next page.)

  > For example deleteion would delete
  > a character but insert a filler-character, insertion would insert a
  > character but delete a filler-character and so on.

I don't follow that.  Could you give a concrete example and say
what these fillers would do, what benefit would result.
I think they would be a pain in the neck
for all the editing commands.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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