I would not say it is naive. I wonder if it is an itch Stallman has had for 25 years, but it is certainly an itch I have. Not for me, I would do perfectly well

I would not say it is naive. I wonder if it is an itch Stallman has had for 25 years, but it is certainly an itch I have. Not for me, I would do perfectly well without word processed documents, but for customers and coworkers, they like PDF if not powerpoint or MSWord documents. For now, I have edited and generated them with reStructured Text, but the workflow is not entirely satisfactory (and I don't feel like dipping into python to improve things there, I would rather write rst document preprocessors in lisp when possible). Another aspect is that if we improve the graphic abilities of emacs, it may be easier and faster to implement chrome like lighttable to attract newbies. Sublime Text probably has capted a percentage of users who would have chosen emacs, if it could have competed in the esthetic plane. Also, it is a little regretable to be limited to ascii art for the few diagrams that are sometimes needed in the documentations we write as programmers. If we could edit vectorial graphics in emacs, it would be great (we can already render svg, but perhaps thru an external program). So I would not say naive, but on the contrary, it may condensate a critical mass of itches to motivate some scratches.