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Re: new Emacs HELLO file??
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: new Emacs HELLO file?? |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:08:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> No, we deliberately have the language in visual order to make it
>> readable. Being readable is more important than being
>> copy-paste-able. When Emacs supports bidirectional editing, we will
>> reorder that again.
>
> I now think it's more important to tell whether or not Emacs
> supports it. When one sees that Arabic is correctly
> displayed in HELLO, he may misunderstand that Arabic is
> supported.
IIRC, R-L display is the principal remaining heavy-lifting task on the
roadmap. I think that rearranging the HELLO file manually into reading
order gives the wrong message not just to the users, but also to the
developers.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: new Emacs HELLO file??, (continued)
Re: new Emacs HELLO file??, Juri Linkov, 2009/09/08