From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:12:06 +0100 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267279589 7362 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 14:06:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:06:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 15:06:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1NlNJH-0001Li-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:06:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlNJH-0001dO-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:06:23 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4QkttRFYIYuEV+9ziqHDbg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (Win32) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177126 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:59:15 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72196 Archived-At: Le Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:35:24 +0100, Peter Dyballa = a = =C3=A9crit: > GNU Emacs is primarily an editor for programming languages. I forget to say : I'm not sure it's primarily indented to be used for = programming language. A lot of people use Emacs to edit HTML document, T= eX = presentation, XML structured news papers, and so on, and me, I came to i= t = with literate programming in mind, and literate programming make heavy u= se = of natural language text. And what about comments in program source any = = way ? While it's true Emacs is an heavily scriptable editor, this does n= ot = implies its sole purpose is to be used for this, not this implies it is = = primarily to be used with Latin language (by the way, the same trouble = comes with TeX and derivatives, which fails to properly handle non-latin= = languages). -- = No-no, this isn't an oops ...or I hope (TM) - Don't blame me... I'm just= = not lucky