From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:42:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83mxyud9k5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267281777 14103 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 14:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:42:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 15:42:53 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlNsa-0000Hm-Ja for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlNsa-0005Wj-34 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NlNsE-0005We-NV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48291 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlNsD-0005WW-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlNsC-0008FK-Oj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:37997) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlNsC-0008Ez-Hu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:28 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYI00J008PQJM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:42:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.186.130]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYI00GDE8UQYC60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:42:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72203 Archived-At: > From: (Yannick Duch=C3=AAne) > Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:12:06 +0100 >=20 > Le Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:35:24 +0100, Peter Dyballa a =20 > =C3=A9crit: > > GNU Emacs is primarily an editor for programming languages. > I forget to say : I'm not sure it's primarily indented to be used f= or =20 > programming language. A lot of people use Emacs to edit HTML docume= nt, TeX =20 > presentation, XML structured news papers, and so on, and me, I came= to it =20 > with literate programming in mind, and literate programming make he= avy use =20 > of natural language text. And what about comments in program source= any =20 > way ? While it's true Emacs is an heavily scriptable editor, this d= oes not =20 > implies its sole purpose is to be used for this, not this implies i= t is =20 > primarily to be used with Latin language (by the way, the same trou= ble =20 > comes with TeX and derivatives, which fails to properly handle non-= latin =20 > languages). Don't worry. The development of support for bidirectional editing in Emacs has an explicit goal of supporting all the features you describ= e above. The only problem is the slow progress...