On Tue, Jun 12, 2012, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: Emacs & Hebrew": > On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 19:05 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > You know, it is quite ironic that, having heard about a major Free > > Software project which now fully supports bidirectional scripts > > including Hebrew, the first thing people here ask is how to disable > > that feature. Not whether it works, not if it's any good, not how > > well it supports this or that aspect of bidirectional editing -- but > > how to turn it off. A sobering experience, I must say.
Life's strange, isn't it ;-) But seriously, when someone announces a new feature, why would you expect the first question to be "is it any good" or "whether it works"? Obviously, if it weren't any good, or didn't actually work - it wouldn't have been announced... At least, that's how it (usually) works in free software (as opposed to the commercial software world) - people don't announce things because of the marketing buzz this generates, but because they are proud of the new feature, which they often created to scratch their own itch. Finally, I don't think the question of "how to turn it off" should surprise you in a list of developers. Bidi is great for writing texts, but since until now writing Hebrew text in Emacs wasn't a great idea, people didn't do it. What they did do with Emacs is writing code, editing config files, and similar things. With those, Bidi is sometimes a distraction, not a desired feature - so people want to be able to turn it off. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Jun 13 2012, n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |There are 2 ways to do it - my way and http://nadav.harel.org.il |the right way _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
