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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default lexical-binding to t
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:45:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ed3nqvoe.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ttcjfovz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (message from Joost Kremers on Thu,  07 Nov 2024 09:07:28 +0100)

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:07:28 +0100
> 
> Hi Eli,
> > Are the time, energy, and
> > massive efforts I invested (and am still investing) in bidirectional
> > editing support worth it?  I don't know; there are days when I think
> > it was all a terrible waste.
> 
> FWIW, I was extremely grateful for that work. At the time bidi support
> became available in Emacs, I needed to work with Arabic texts quite a bit,
> and it was great that I could do that from the comfort of my favourite
> editor.

Thanks.  But there are other voices in this regard.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-07  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-01 12:55 Default lexical-binding to t Stefan Monnier
2024-11-01 14:42 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-11-01 17:03 ` Karl Fogel
2024-11-02 10:48 ` Visuwesh
2024-11-02 12:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-02 13:21     ` Visuwesh
2024-11-02 16:24   ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-02 20:42     ` Jim Porter
2024-11-02 21:38       ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03  2:32         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 13:58           ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 14:34             ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-04  8:35             ` Jean Louis
2024-11-04  8:43               ` tomas
2024-11-03  1:46       ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03  2:30         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03  7:47         ` Jim Porter
2024-11-03 13:53           ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03  6:44       ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-03 14:59         ` lexical-binding in paredit Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 18:32           ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-03 21:44             ` Taylor R Campbell
2024-11-04  1:54               ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-03 15:26 ` Default lexical-binding to t Andrea Corallo
2024-11-07  3:46   ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 23:00     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-08 15:53       ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 16:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 17:28           ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 17:37             ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-08 18:51             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 20:18               ` Sebastián Monía
2024-11-08 20:57                 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-11-11  5:13             ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-04  5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-04  9:39   ` Po Lu
2024-11-04 13:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-04 17:06     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-11-04 18:24       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-11-06  4:44       ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07 23:07     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-04 12:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-05 20:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 12:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 12:50         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 13:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 16:32             ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 17:20               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-06 17:42               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-06 20:48                 ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-06 22:50                   ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-07  0:46                     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-07 21:03                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08  0:44                         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-10  4:04                         ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07  6:14                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07  8:07                       ` Joost Kremers
2024-11-07  8:45                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-11-07 11:09                           ` tomas
2024-11-07 21:23                       ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-07 22:37                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-11-08  6:58                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 14:01                           ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08 15:19                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 19:07                               ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-11-08 20:01                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07 22:10                     ` Andrea Corallo
2024-11-08 18:38                     ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07  2:55                 ` Sean Whitton
2024-11-06 17:54       ` Jim Porter
2024-11-06 19:26         ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 20:23           ` John Yates
2024-11-08 18:43             ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-06 19:53         ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2024-11-08 18:42           ` Stefan Monnier
2024-11-07  3:46     ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-07  7:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-07  3:46     ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-11-07 22:28 Christopher Howard
2024-11-08  0:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08  6:29   ` tomas
2024-11-10  4:04     ` Richard Stallman
2024-11-08  7:27   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08 12:11     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08 13:12       ` Suhail Singh
2024-11-08 13:24         ` Stefan Kangas
2024-11-08 13:45       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-08  7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii

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