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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> From my point of view, texmacs should not try to compete with pure 
> drawing  tools like xfig, Inkscape, Canvas or what ever you like. I 
> use TeXmacs  mainly for work, that is writing mathematics. So, I need 
> formulas, plots  and commutative diagramms. This can be handled very 
> well with the plugins,  we have, but it is much nicer to have it one 
> application. So, if TeXmacs  offers this functionality: perfect.
Precisely, now that the graphical markup exists in TeXmacs, it becomes
possible to write macros a la PsTricks for these kinds of things.

> The only thing with disturbs me about the graphics mode is, that I do 
> not  find it intuitive, or to be more precise: It is very different 
> from the  drawing, I am used to. This is mainly a problem of good 
> documentation. The  tutorial was a good start, but without it I did 
> not really manage to draw  something worthy. Instead I had problems, 
> because typing C-backspace, sent  TeXmacs into some nasty problems 
> resulting in a crash.
Currently, the graphical editor has one big problem : one must not type 
on the keyboard while
drawing, otherwise the characters are inserted directly in the graphics, 
and then you go in
the nasty problems.

> My suggestion is to keep working on this graphical mode, but to add a  
> feature, which I really would like to have, namely keyboard movement 
> in  menubar or context menu.

I don't like the mouse, so I would enjoy this one, too.

> I always have to use the mouse, which is a bit  annoying because 
> moving in the menuitems with cursor would be faster.  Memorizing every 
> shortcut is not an alternative. (I case you wonder, I  fear, taht we 
> may end up having a feature wish list, not a task list ;-) )
No problem.