Re: Porting rebox2 and GNU Emacs portability
Hi Stephen, Reiner
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Reiner Steib writes:
> On Fri, Nov 18 2011, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > That is hideous. Who approved that, I wonder? Oh, I see. There's a
> > distinction between logical order and display order, so this must be
> > related to the recent introduction of bidi support in Emacs.
>
> Nope, no relation to bidi:
This makes me sad.
So what *is* the difference between those two functions then?
AFAIK rebox2 is not a package distributed by XEmacs (not yet, anyway,
I
don't know what Marcus's plan is).
First of all I need to check whether I find the package useful at all.
Therefore, I want to compile it to see whether it is worth the effort. I
may decide adding it to an XEmacs package at some later stage.
In any case, I assume the proposal is to add the alias to XEmacs
core
or a standard compatibility package.
That was the idea. The functions are rather fundamental and are expected
to be widely used by packages with origins in Emacs. Correct me if I am
wrong, but I believe that defining those functions in a compatibility
package (perhaps before porting them to XEmacs properly) is the right
thing to do.
Thanks
Marcus
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