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From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: hugo@heagren.com, 62606@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62606: R2L modelines (was: bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right)
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:52:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbkho60p2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83edmk1uga.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:17:25 +0300")

>> [ And now I wonder: can Emacs have R2L modelines?  If so, what should
>>   happen in those?  ]
[...]
> Bottom line: Emacs doesn't support making the UI right-to-left.
> IMNSHO in IME, supporting that would be a lot of work for very little
> benefit.

Indeed, it seems to be of any real use, we'd first need to be able to
translate most of the elements (like mode names, menu titles, ...).

[ Sorry for this offtopic drift in the thread.  I'll stop here.  ]


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-09 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-01 22:27 bug#62606: [PATCH] function to align mode-line elements to right hugo
2023-04-02  5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-06 14:14   ` hugo
2023-05-06 14:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-05 20:45       ` hugo
2023-06-06 11:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-09 12:47           ` hugo
2023-06-09 13:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <f60acc21a937b413f6528264f233ebfe@heagren.com>
2023-06-09 14:52                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-02 16:19 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-09 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-09 16:17   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-09 16:52     ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2023-06-19 19:06   ` hugo
2023-06-24 12:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-26 10:06       ` hugo
2023-06-26 11:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 12:43           ` hugo
2023-07-06  7:35             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <handler.62606.D62606.168862894016990.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2023-07-14 16:37   ` Juri Linkov
2023-07-17 17:56     ` Juri Linkov
     [not found]       ` <CALDnm53v4O9cYcYwcqGpYVb4xVOw6t+FM1xX21k7HFxWyuiSaQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <83fryrs1l8.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <87edebjcku.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <835xznro5i.fsf@gnu.org>
2024-01-21 10:20               ` João Távora
2024-01-21 10:27                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-21 10:39                   ` João Távora

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