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Re: r2llib-0.08 and biditext-0.04 "sniffing baboons" release

Tzafrir Cohen
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:10:05 -0700

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, mulix wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 

> are you sure using the version string 0.9.2 on biditext is smart, at
> this point in time?

The switch to 0.9 by Ilya was because of an important feature was added,
that has changed the behaviour (identifying charset). Although it is
probably more fitting of 0.1 than to 0.9 .

> 
> > There are some noticable differences.
> >
> > I tried running rxvt with and without biditext. In both I ran 'ls' on a
> > directory that has a couple of subdirectories and compressed files.
> > ls is aliased to: 'ls --color=auto -F' . Maybe color displaying with rxvt
> > is a bit inefficient, and maybe it is just that this requires seperate
> > XDrawString calls.
> 
> > /bin/ls doesn't have any noticable difference. But displaying a
> > colored 'ls' takes long (around 2 seconds from 10 lines of text with no
> > scrolling).
> 
> weird. i've just tried the same thing, with 'rxvt' and 'biditext rxvt'
> and 'ls --color -F' and i couldn't see and difference.
> 
> could you tell me exactly what to do to reproduce the problem you saw?
> (terminal font, code page, whatever)

I used 'rxvt -fn heb8x13'

behaves quite differently from 'rxvt -fn fixed'

But now I see that 'rxvt -fn heb6x13' is not as bad as 'rxvt -fn heb8x13'

I'm running this from a remote X terminal, BTW.

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