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Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode |
Date: |
Tue, 01 May 2018 21:45:00 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Let's say the user is typing away at something resembling this
> paragraph, and then decides to make "typing" bold, so the user would go
> back to that work, mark it and issue whatever command there is for "make
> this bold". The mode would do the change to the HTML document, ask shr
> to re-render it, and then display the results.
Sounds OK.
> This is, of course, not like what Emacs does normally when editing text,
> and would break a lot of invariants that people are used to.
I don't think so, actually. At least, I don't think it should be very
serious issue (and in the worst case we could do a comparison between
the old and new rendering to try and modify only the "relevant" portion
of the buffer).
IOW, nothing too worrisome.
> So here's what I think: I think somebody (i.e., me) should try
^^
Huh? Me? No way! I think you meant you!
> But like I said, I don't have time at the moment. :-)
Sounds like the ideal moment to start hacking then!
Stefan
Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode, Michael Heerdegen, 2018/05/02
Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode, Richard Stallman, 2018/05/01