Thanks for your opinion on the right-left feature. I'll await remarks
from others.
> > > Similarly, keymaps work well, and I wonder why they have been
> > > relegated to the Huge build. IMHO, keymaps (and possibly langmaps,
> > > which I don't use because I am lucky enough to have a mother languague
> > > using the Latin alphabet) are an essential feature when working with
> > > non-Latin scripts. I have taken the trouble to write owncoded keymaps
> > > for both Russian (Cyrillic) and Arabic, but now my workhouse Big build
> > > (downgraded to Normal level) can't use them anymore. They used to be
> > > usable with a Big build but now a Huge build (with, from my point of
> > > view, lots of unneeded ballast) is required.
> >
> > It is rather arbitrary. I moved features related to highlighting to the
> > normal build, and features related to natural language support to the
> > huge build. Now we have three builds that are different enough to
> > justify their existence. You can pick the normal build and cherry-pick
> > some features, or use the huge build and disable features that you don't
> > want.
>
> However, +multi_byte was made unconditional (moved to Tiny) some time
> ago. Isn't that natural language support too? OTOH, Unicode support is
> becoming more and more universal these days, especially on Linux (but
> AFAIR not in your own email client as configured).
Unicode support is a basic feature these days, it is required for
reliably opening a file and being able to view the contents.
The features moved to "huge" are for editing specific languages. Most
languages don't need these features. Digraph support is in the "normal"
build, because I expect this to be much more widely used. But in the
end it is a bit arbitrary, we don't have actual usage statistics.
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