Re: Please help with the bidi Emacs

[Thamer Mahmoud <neokuwait at myrealbox dot com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il> writes:

> The initial version of Emacs that is supposed to support the
> bidirectional editing is available as a branch of the emacs-unicode
> version.  As of now, only the redisplay code has been modified to
> support bidirectionality, and even that is still rudimentary and
> probably doesn't work in many cases.  Someone already told me that it
> crashes once the bidirectional display flag is turned on :-(
>
> I wrote the underlying code that is used by the display engine to
> produce visual-order glyphs from a logical-order buffer, but I don't
> have enough resources to devote to work on this version of Emacs.
>
> I'm asking for volunteers who would be prepared to try this version
> and help debugging and fixing it until it is stable enough to be
> useful to a fairly wide audience of users.
>
> If people are interested, I will post here the details of accessing
> this branch via CVS.
>
> Thanks in advance.


Please do. I'm also CC'ing Arabeyes.org developer list, since pushing
for bidi support in Emacs is on their agenda, I'm sure they will be
interested in this.

Regards,
Thamer Mahmoud