Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:30:04 +0100
> 
>    Micha> Sure, at
>    Micha> http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/
> 
> Ok thanks, one question remains:
> why didn't enter  this into main emacs, lack of support,
> incompatibility of Mule internals?

The above page spells this out (under "Future Plans"):

    The Emacs core developers concluded that the bi-directional drawing
    method used here is not suitable to be integrated into the original
    GNU Emacs.  Another attempt to implement a bidi algorithm in Emacs'
    display engine is ongoing and it is likely to be a part of future GNU
    Emacs.  An overview is described in the DisplayEngineForBidi section of
    the Emacs Wiki web site.

The ``other ongoing attempt'' it refers to is the code I wrote, but
unfortunately no one had time to work on it since it was written and
integrated into the Emacs display engine.  It needs a lot of
debugging.