Re: Sv: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> CC: "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>, "ghe@sdf.org" <ghe@sdf.org>,
>       "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:40:23 +0000
> 
> > I also think that it is not wise to talk about page decorations before
> > we actually have a WYSIWYG editor that can display formatted text.
> 
> You can already display formatted text. You have implemented it! Emacs draws 
> italics, and bold, and
> superscripts,
> different fonts and what not. It just has to be connected to a button! N. 
> Rougier made awesome little svg
> library for
> toolbars and now he posted little svg-icon library to download icons. It is 
> justto create some nice svg buttons
> and toolbars and connect it to those functions for text formatting.

Those things we "just" have to do, must be done, otherwise we cannot
claim to be anywhere near a word processor, because it is unimaginable
in a word processor to apply faces via Edit->Text Properties, let
alone via lower-level commands.

And the next thing to do is the ability to save all that face
information to a disk file, so that the next time you visit the file
you see the same faces.  Enriched mode does that, but it needs more
love.

Next after that is pixel-level indentation and filling/justification,
so that we could use variable-pitch fonts.

Next are the printing facilities, where I hope we will once and for
all solve the problem of printing non-ASCII, non-Latin-1 characters.

When we have done all that, we will have a significant portion of a
word processor, IMO.