From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: On Savannah: What are "arch" and "bidi" and .... Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:07:38 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <409BB44A.1080107@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083949662 26414 80.91.224.253 (7 May 2004 17:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 19:07:38 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BM8oz-00081g-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2004 19:07:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BM82a-0005B8-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2004 12:17:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: http://news.individual.net/abuse.html Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de oXoOoZEz9cxEsZ3Z6FYeaQT6meXMTp0Attqf8NMPmbOknfxsg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123059 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18347 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18347 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > At the risk of appearing stupid, would somebody please tell me the > purpose of the various named branches in the Emacs CVS repository. I've > been seeing these names bandied about on the emacs-devel mailing list for > months, and haven't had the courage to ask before now. You should ask on the emacs-devel mailing list then. ... > So, what are the "arch", "bidi", "lexical", "multi-tty", "RC", (Miles's) > "tiling", "Unicode" branches for? Is there anywhere on savannah I could > have looked to find the answer myself? arch is a new version control system, aka tla. I don't understand the relationship between CVS and arch, though. bidi is the branch that supports bidirectional text, i.e. right-to-left languages as well as left-to-right. lexical is the branch that implements Emacs Lisp with lexical (vs. dynamic) binding. multi-tty is the branch that supports, uh, multiple ttys (for a single emacs instance). tiling is the branch that implements some fancy image features, like background images. unicode is obviously the branch that (fully) support Unicode -- it might even use it as the internal encoding. -- Kevin Rodgers