Re: What improvements would be truly useful?

[Daniel Colascione]

On 03/06/2018 12:54 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 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.

If you want to add word processing features to Emacs, I suggest 
implementing the necessary changes features yourself instead of 
suggesting that discussion of other priorities is somehow "interfering".

Code wins arguments. `eval' tends not to work very well when you pass it 
a block of prose about how Emacs should be a word processor.

> 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.

Sure. It'd be nice if Emacs were suitable for that task. I don't see the 
urgency, considering that plenty of equally free packages exist.