> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:50:57 +0200 > > During the Emacs 21 pretest phase, I submitted dozens of bug reports > about display engine problems in connection with preview-latex. I > think that quite a number of optimizations got killed because of that:
Yes, but the most important (those I mentioned and a few similar ones) are still there. Gerd told me back then that he actually tried the display engine without any optimizations, and found that it was unusably slow. > IIRC, emacs-bidi was supposed to be a rather clean design implementing > the specs quite straightly, correct? If you mean the UAX#9, then yes, the intent was to do exactly what it says. > So one will probably have more > cleanup remaining outside of the patch itself than inside it, right? I don't know. There are a few gray areas in UAX#9, which we would need to interpret as best for Emacs. > I am just trying to get some feeling about the situation, to get a > guess how much work might be entailed before it is realistic to think > about getting it into some release in the future. I think we will not have any idea about this until Someone(tm) will spend some time using and debugging the display engine with bidi turned on. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
