Re: Writing enriched text

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE]

wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

  > What we really need is an html and/or enriched-text minor mode.

Is this sufficient?  Suppose people are composing multipart messages
where several parts should be edited using such special modes.  RMS
wants Emacs to go more into the WYSYWYG direction, so we can expect
stuff like this to happen more often.

So, what we need is a way to edit a buffer using some special mode.
When editing in that mode is finished, the internal representation
needs to be transformed to the storage form (format-alist?) which
would then be included in the message.

Or, we need a way to dissect a buffer into areas each of which is
edited in a different mode.  OLE, anyone?

Am I misunderstanding something?  I'm not saying all of this should
work right now, but the basic machinery could be there to be used with
enriched-mode now (and maybe htmlify) and other stuff could be plugged
in later.

kai
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