> From: n...@math.technion.ac.il (Nadav Har'El) > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:50:25 +0300 > > 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 ;-)
You mean, disappointing? Yes, it is. To hear such questions from Nadav Har'El, of all the people. > 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... This contradicts complaints, by Omer and others, earlier in this thread about every other editor with bidi support: Gedit, Abiword, Gvim. Evidently what you think should not happen happens... And since the bidirectional display for Emacs was developed in almost complete isolation from this community -- not a single input or response to several design discussions I posted -- why would anyone assume that an essentially one-man project will not end up being a complete disaster from usability point of view? > 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. How do you know it's a distraction, if you didn't yet try it? _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
