On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 19:22 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > And since the bidirectional display for Emacs was developed in almost > complete isolation from this community -- not a single input or > response to several design discussions I posted -- why would anyone > assume that an essentially one-man project will not end up being a > complete disaster from usability point of view?
At the time I considered helping the effort. However, Emacs is too big piece of software to dive into without investing serious time. > > Bidi is great for writing texts, but since until now writing Hebrew > > text in Emacs wasn't a great idea, people didn't do it. What they > > did do with Emacs is writing code, editing config files, and similar > > things. With those, Bidi is sometimes a distraction, not a desired > > feature - so people want to be able to turn it off. > > How do you know it's a distraction, if you didn't yet try it? I did try to edit code with embedded Hebrew strings using BiDi compliant editors such as Gedit, and it was indeed a disaster. Not because of any usability shortcoming of the editor, but because of the very nature of the BiDi algorithm. Emacs was good for editing such files, and I am glad that Emacs remains this way (by having the option to turn off BiDi algorithm - and I suggest to turn BiDi off by default in all major modes, which are used for programming language supporting Hebrew glyphs in constant strings, such as Python, Java, etc.). --- Omer P.S.: I hope to install Emacs 24 as soon as it is backported to Debian Squeeze or Debian Wheezy. -- My Commodore 64 is suffering from slowness and insufficiency of memory; and its display device is grievously short of pixels. Can anyone help? My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
