[josteink]

> The drawing model is archaic. Every mode seems to have its own kluge to work around such basic tasks as "I want to display a simple table".

It has pros and cons.

The pro is clearly that in Emacs everything is text, and can be processed as text, by using the same commands, keys and macros you use for everything else.

No other editor has this, and I cannot understate how handicapped I feel in those editors where some things are "off limites" and cannot be copied, because it's a designated "GUI" of some sort, instead just... text.

Taking that away from Emcas would IMO be a major loss.