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OK, about this editing. First of all, Why? If you want to kind of look at it
while editing, do t in WordPerfect, for example. You get to see all your
changes, and the majority of functions (including lists, headers, and sectioon
markers) could be translated into TeX source by a (reasonably sophisticated)
macro.

But hey, let's say you really want TeX editing. OK, first of all
assume a far more powerful computer than just about anybody has sitting
on their desk right now, powerfull enough to TeX 2 pages of
text 100 times a second. Oh, and lots of memory.

Now, when TeX sets a text, it takes snapshots at every page break.
When you're typing along, every time you enter a character it resets
the last two pages to accurately reflect pagebreaks, linebreaks, spacing,
etc. All slash commands would be invisible, I assume, but their effects
would be visible. There shouldn't be a problem with cutting and pasting, 
this is what WP does now. (In case you hadn't guessed, WordPerfect is my
WYSIWYG editor of choice :) I think you'd have to have *another* set of 
windows available for popup to do things like select fonts, change spacing
parameters, and whatnot, and some special functions would still have to 
be written directly.

As for point-and-click equations, I don't work with the nasty things
at all, so I refuse to speculate.

Dave Howell
howell@blegga.cac.washington.edu