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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:43:05 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I remember a similar situation on the emacs-bidi mailing list 15 years
> > ago when the bidirectional editing support for Emacs was just a pipe
> > dream.
> 
> That was a completely different situation.  tree-sitter is very far from
> a pipe dream (the initial Git commit dates back to 2013).

You may not remember it, but at the time I mentioned we had a working
prototype of bidi Emacs.  It was even demonstrated at a conference in
Japan in the year 2000.  So the situation is not really that
different.