Re: Pretest begins end-June

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> Stefan and I have decided on the end of June for the beginning of the
>>> Emacs 24.1 pretest.  We're hoping for an early 2012 release, but, as
>>> always, that will depend on the code.
>> That schedule is way too early for the bidi stuff.  There are still 2
>> major jobs I need to do (reordering display strings and support for
>> truncated lines) and one minor one (a couple of bug reports regarding
>> cursor motion around invisible text and before-/after-strings).
>> There's no chance in the world that they will be ready in a month.
>
> I know it's hard to guess the future, but do you have some approximate
> idea of when we could reasonably expect to get these fixed?
>
> Other question: do these affect the behavior of Emacs when
> bidi-reorder-display is non-nil but there's no R2L in sight?

Emacs is a desktop environment.  R2L will come "in sight" unintendedly
via Mail, via opening files in the wrong encoding, via Usenet, via
interpreting binary garbage and so on and so on.

-- 
David Kastrup