Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:30:06 +0900 > From: Martin Duerst <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > > It looks to me like you could just use fribidi or so, with an > additional layer that caches the batch-mode results and returns > them one-by-one. This was considered. Such a caching would be a performance hit, and it also requires significant changes in the logic and structure of the Emacs display code. > >I wrote such a sequential version of bidi reordering, and it was > >integrated into redisplay on a special branch of Emacs CVS. But no > >one had time to debug it and expand it, unfortunately. > > Can you give a definitive pointer (ideally URI) to that branch? The branch name is emacs-bidi. The instructions to use the Emacs CVS can be found here: http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs