From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:52 +0200 Message-ID: <8363708u8b.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y6jyat25.fsf@gnu.org> <83tyulbwl2.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263752727 3948 80.91.229.12 (17 Jan 2010 18:25:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 17 19:25:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NWZoH-0007kb-87 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:25:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52181 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWZoH-0004lp-V5 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWZoD-0004lM-Mn for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWZo9-0004jx-IW for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42662 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWZo9-0004ju-F3; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:58355) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWZo7-0003VK-N3; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:25:03 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KWE00K00LT01500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.130.198]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KWE00ENHLTF7QK0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:24:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:445 gmane.emacs.devel:120169 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:04:13 -0500 > > > Great to hear you progress on bidi support! > > I never stopped. Progress is slow, but steady. > > Things that work so far: > > Could you post a TODO list of the things not implemented? I will do that in a few days, but please note that I don't have an exhaustive list of all the jobs that need to be done, or even something close. Just to make such a list is a very large job which involves examining many features for possible implicit reliance on text direction. What I'm trying to do is prepare some minimal infrastructure upon which others could build more complex features and applications. But even for that much smaller job, the list of things to take care is highly dynamic, because I find out about hidden problems as I go along. I keep notes about issues I discovered; I will use that to generate some kind of TODO.