Re: [Nano-devel] Adding right to left (RTL) languages support

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Mahyar,

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015, at 15:32, Mahyar Abbaspour wrote:
> [...] I'm sure this will attract lots of RTL language speakers
> the moment they become aware of this feature in Nano :)

Let's hope so.

> my intention for using a separate branch was to separate the development of
> this feature from the mainline branch as I think it's better to take an
> incremental approach toward this feature. This separate branch can be highly
> unstable. We code and commit incrementally

Who is "we"?  :)

> and ask people who are familiar with
> RTL languages to test it until the branch becomes stable enough that can be
> merged with the dev branch. By doing this I think, the testers can easier
> keep themselves synced with the latest changes.

Possibly.  It won't require applying a patch, and then later reverting
it before applying a newer patch, which can get cinfusing.

> (I wish Nano used Git instead of
> SVN. It would make the things far more easier.)

Well , you can do:

  git svn clone svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/nano/trunk/nano

See 'git help svn'.  Cloning takes about an hour.  After that,
you can do local commits.  If necessary, these commits can
later be applied in sequence to SVN, to preserve some of the
development history.

> BTW, if this method is too much of work or you think it's harder than
> patching, we can stick to good old patches.

No, it's certainly not harder than patching.  But don't expect me
to help keep the branch in sync with HEAD.

Only Chris, however, can give you commit access to SVN.

Benno

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