Re: Emacs-23 release branch

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> It _should_ be in a usable state, as all of the bidi support is
> entirely dormant until you flip a buffer-local variable.  With a
> single exception, all the bidi support code is only run if that
> variable was set non-nil, and only for the buffer where it was set.
> (The default is nil, of course.)  The single exception is the function
> set_cursor_from_row, which needed a complete rewrite to be able to
> support bidirectional display with `display' properties.
>
> That said, I didn't yet have time to run the branch in a GUI session,
> so maybe it would be prudent to wait with the merge until I do and can
> see that it is stable (as long as the above-mentioned variable is not
> set).

Yes, that sounds fine.