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Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree
From: |
Tzafrir Cohen |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: merge emacs-bidi into the main tree |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Aug 2003 01:38:26 +0300 |
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 address@hidden wrote:
>
> I think the number of developers is a monotonic function of the number
> of users, and emacs-bidi is already usable!
>
> The best way to widen the users base is to include emacs-bidi in
> popular Linux distributions. Therefore I would like to draw your attention to
> the Debian package which I descovered just today.
>
> It is available at
>
> http://www.pipapo.org/www/www/Files/emacsbidi
$ grep emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
# bidi emacs
deb http://www.pipapo.org/www/www/Files/emacsbidi ./
I figured I am not an addicted emacs user, but being a debian user makes
me the perfect test-subject for the package
>
> and can be installed in the standard way with apt-get,
> aptitude etc.
>
> Here is its description:
>
> Package: emacsbidi
> Version: 0.9-1
> Section: editors
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: i386
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libjpeg62, libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-1),
> xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
> Conflicts:
> emacs20,emacs20-dl,emacs21,emacsen-common,emacs21-common,emacs-intl-fonts
> Installed-Size: 79084
> Maintainer: Ayman Negm <address@hidden>
> Description: GNU Emacs with Arabic, Hebrew support
> Emacs-bidi it support UTF-8 and bidi language like
> Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. It's based on GNU Emacs21.
> This is a development version and not the official release.
> Please read http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/index.html.
>
> I haven't tested it, because it is the *replacement* for the standard
> Gnu Emacs package. An obvious wishlist is to allow emacsbidi to
> coexist piecefully with other Emacsen, as it is the case with emacs 20
> and emacs 21.
~# apt-get install emacsbidi
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
emacs-intl-fonts emacs20 emacs21 emacs21-common emacsen-common
hyperlatex junior-programming junior-writing python-elisp x-symbol xemacs21
xemacs21-bin xemacs21-gnome-nomule xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
emacsbidi
Not just gnu emacs. xemacs as well. why???
And why is this fonts package being removed?
What the heck. I'll live without an emacs for a while...
Installed...
Oops... I can't figure out how to set up Hebrew font.
Can't see any emacs-bidi-specific documentation in the package. E.g.:
http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/index.html as it is.
Tried:
emacsbidi -fn heb8x13
And typed some Hebrew chars using the X winodws's Hebrew keyboard. No
bidi rendering sighted.
Using c-u c-\ for the input method: still no bidi rendering.
A change of font:
emacsbidi -fn '-misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1'
And still no bidi for me.
What am I missing?
Do I really need special per-user settings? Can they be done
system-wide? Are there any sane defaultsthat could be given by the
package?
>
> Thanks to official ITP (Intend to Package,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=184831),
> there is a chance that emacsbidi will be included in the future
> official Debian distribution.
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