From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-23 release branch Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:29 -0500 Message-ID: <873a08hwla.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87zl2g24xy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83d3zc2iqr.fsf@gnu.org> <87tyso13og.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <838wa02h8h.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268244979 9882 80.91.229.12 (10 Mar 2010 18:16:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 10 19:16:15 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 1NpQS1-0005V1-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:16:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39302 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQS0-0005AD-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQRv-00058l-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48038 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NpQRu-00058F-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpQRt-0007iq-O6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:02 -0500 Original-Received: from pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.94]:48249) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NpQRt-0007if-MG; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014175.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.175]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po33.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o2AIFcZm013972 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:56 -0500 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BACFBC011; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:15:29 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <838wa02h8h.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:121783 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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). Yes, that sounds fine.