Re: [emacs-bidi] state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:30:06 +0900
> From: Martin Duerst <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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