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: Emacs-23 release branch Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:14 +0200 Message-ID: <838wa02h8h.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3zc2iqr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tyso13og.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268243808 4912 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2010 17:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 18:56:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1NpQ97-000357-9g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:56:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53229 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQ91-0003Fc-Oz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQ8n-00034N-W7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60152 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQ8n-000337-2R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpQ8j-00056t-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:36700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpQ8i-00056S-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KZ200D00UY9D400@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:11 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.34.234]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KZ20096TV5M6ZC0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87tyso13og.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121779 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:34:23 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Does this mean it is okay to merge my local bidi branch with mainline > > any time I feel like it? > > Yes, if the bidi branch is in a usable state, please do so. It _should_ be in a usable state, as all of the bidi support is entirely dormant until you flip a buffer-local variable. With a single exception, all the bidi support code is only run if that variable was set non-nil, and only for the buffer where it was set. (The default is nil, of course.) The single exception is the function set_cursor_from_row, which needed a complete rewrite to be able to support bidirectional display with `display' properties. That said, I didn't yet have time to run the branch in a GUI session, so maybe it would be prudent to wait with the merge until I do and can see that it is stable (as long as the above-mentioned variable is not set). WDYT?