[CFT] editors/emacs to 24.1

[Ashish SHUKLA]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:20:43 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de> said:
> On 07/23/2012 13:39, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:32:34 +0200, Jan Henrik Sylvester <me at janh.de> said:
>>> Arabic, which is finally displayed from right-to-left, works in
>>> windowed mode, but for me, it does not work correctly with "-nw":
>>> While it is displayed correctly in a LANG=en_US.UTF-8 Konsole (KDE
>>> terminal), the order of the letters is changed just by moving the
>>> cursor through Arabic text. I do not think this is a problem with the
>>> port, but either with my setup or with emacs-24.1 in general.
>> 
>> Did you try other terminal, like mrxvt ? I think it's problem with terminal,
>> and not Emacs, but I might be wrong.

> mrxvt and mrxvt-devel both do not display utf-8 at all. I tried
> rxvt-unicode: While only some of the Arabic characters where displayed
> correctly, the cursor was moving properly and it did not reorder the
> characters. Emacs and the Emacs port seem to be fine. Finding and
> setting up a terminal that works properly with Arabic seems to be the
> problem.

Sorry, I was talking about mlterm[1].

> My curiosity ends here. I cannot even read Arabic myself. I just
> happen to know someone, who would like to use Arabic in Emacs with
> auctex, but that person does not ever use "-nw".

>>> For my use, I would be happy, if emacs-24.1 was the default in ports, soon.
>> 
>> Sure, it will be. I'd some personal issues over past weeks which are not
>> rectified so less slacking, more hacking.

s/not/now/

> Sorry, if my statement sounded demanding. It was not meant to be at
> all. I just wanted to summarize that the issues I found are not with
> the port, I consider them extremely minor, and I will use emacs-24.1
> from now on.

I think my typo confused it, sorry. I'll commit it by this weekend
hopefully. Also any issues with Emacs, should be reported to emacs-devel[2]
for better resolution, unless it's something FreeBSD port specific.

References:
[1]  http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/
[2]  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel/

Thanks
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Ashish SHUKLA      | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116  20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0
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