From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes in frame/window code Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:50:40 +0300 Message-ID: <8338dmj1of.fsf@gnu.org> References: <53CE6A44.1010708@gmx.at> <53D4FF76.1060804@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406472654 25876 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2014 14:50:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:50:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 27 16:50:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XBPmg-0007nL-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 16:50:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35290 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBPmd-0003nb-Ni for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:50:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBPmU-0003nI-OV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBPmO-0003Xm-Nk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:50:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64632) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XBPmO-0003XZ-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 10:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9D00L00KUOMS00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:50:26 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9D00LEHL82ANA0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:50:26 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <53D4FF76.1060804@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173177 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 15:32:38 +0200 > From: martin rudalics > > > (4) Add horizontal scroll bars for the Gtk/Motif/Lucid/Windows builds. Thanks! Please remove the TODO item for this. > I have committed the changes now. Although I gave them some thorough > testing with the Gtk/Lucid/Motif and Windows builds here, they very > likely might break with other window managers or toolkits. I did some > light tests with GNUstep but am convinced that the NS build in > particular will run into more serious problems. The horizontal scrolling behaves strangely/incorrectly and erratically with bidirectional text, especially when some paragraphs are L2R and others R2L. This aspect was never discussed in detail (I didn't even know you were working on this), so I'm not surprised it doesn't DTRT.