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: display-buffer-alist simplifications Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:16:40 +0300 Message-ID: <83y5zjem1j.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mxgem09k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2A7EBD.7050300@gmx.at> <87livooqt6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2B158B.1080101@gmx.at> <87wrf8iyse.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2BEED2.5040608@gmx.at> <8739hvu6lh.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2C50E6.3020103@gmx.at> <878vrnweju.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4E2D34D7.4040002@gmx.at> <87r55cjvef.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311783414 5685 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 16:16:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juanma Barranquero Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 18:16:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6mr-00079f-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6mq-0000mP-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:16:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57594) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6mk-0000lu-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6mf-00088W-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:47290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm6mf-00088E-BU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:16:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LP000N002GO0X00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:16:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.248.249]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LP000L3I2JHRCG0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:16:30 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:142401 Archived-At: > From: Juanma Barranquero > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:02:07 +0200 > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 13:30, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > > > Developing in a separate branch seems to have been successful for Eli's > > bidi work, so I think it varies. > > Honestly, we don't yet know if it has worked for Eli's bidi changes, > because `bidi-display-reordering' still defaults to nil. Once we > switch it and start getting bug reports. or not, we'll see. Exactly my thoughts. Although in my case, I made a point of merging onto the trunk as soon as the code was reasonably stable (read: stopped crashing every minute or so). I'm grateful to Stefan and Chong for their encouragement to do so, because I had my doubts. > That said, I think Eli's bidi is a huge amount of work and he's been > very thourough, and if I had to bet, I'd bet on bidi integration being > a success. Thanks. But I still have my doubts ;-)