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Re: emacs-bidi - funtional/ready, now what ?
- To: shaikli at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: emacs-bidi - funtional/ready, now what ?
- From: TAKAHASHI Naoto <ntakahas at m17n dot org>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:42:32 +0900 (JST)
- Cc: emacs-bidi at gnu dot org, developer at arabeyes dot org
- User-agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI)
Nadim Shaikli writes:
> Greetings, now that emacs-bidi has been around for over 6-months
> in its current very functional state, what can be said about its
> future and its possible inclusion into emacs' CVS tree ?
The current version never goes into the main tree. Actually, it uses
algorithms that have already been rejected to be included.
> 1. Post a reference on gnu.emacs.sources
> 2. Ask for beta testers on gnu.emacs.help
Advertising the current version is greatly welcome.
> 3. Get the author to present a polished version of his changes to RMS
> - they will then to go the Emacs Devel list, and be debated there
A "pollished" version will not do; a drastic change is required.
> Could someone with a bit more visibility into what's taking shape
> within emacs let us know how best to proceed to make emacs-bidi an
> included native functionality within emacs proper ?
If someone writes better code for bidi, it may be included in the
'official' GNU Emacs. The problem is, none of the programmers who can do
it has time to do it. If you know a capable programmer, please ask
him/her to give us a hand.
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TAKAHASHI Naoto
ntakahas at m17n dot org
http://www.m17n.org/ntakahas/