Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> elta.co.il> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 02:05:07 -0400
>> 
>> What do Hebrew and Arab users think of it?
>> Eli Z, what is your opinion?
>
> I feel uneasy about using something about which Gerd was most unhappy
> at the time this was discussed.
>
> I'd prefer to call for volunteers to continue the work I started,
> namely, change the display engine to support bidirectional editing
> without processing batches of buffer's text.  (I can elaborate if
> there's enough interest.)  I have some unpolished stand-alone code
> that does bidi reordering sequentially, which should fit very well
> into the Emacs display engine, but someone needs to take that code and
> integrate it into Emacs, since I probably won't have time any time
> soon enough for this to be practical.
>
> If anyone steps forward willing to begin hacking the display code, I
> promise to help in any way I can.

Well, I am probably not yet skilled enough to be of any real help. And
I still have making fontsets customizable as the `car' of my
TODO-list, while the university does not leave much time for me.

But since I have been fascinated by m18n issues, since I started to
use Emacs. And since I'd like to become proficient in display hacking
some time in the future, I would appreciate it, if you could add me to