From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
Cc: 9219@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 23:17:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwlkc2en.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ei14vr61.fsf@sophokles.streitblatt.de>
> From: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
> Cc: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>, 9219@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:59:50 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Florian Beck <abstraktion@t-online.de>
> >> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:06:36 +0200
> >>
> >> Occasinally I use א (x5d0) at the beginning of a paragraph (as a marker
> >> for some quite but not completly unrelated thought, cf. Agamben).
> >>
> >> This makes emacs display the buffer aligned to the right (correctly, as
> >> for the docstring of `bidi-paragraph-direction'), which is not what I want.
> >
> > What _do_ you want?
>
> As in a left-to-right paragraph. A more common example would be someone
> writing an english article and starting not only a sentence but a
> paragraph with a hebrew (or arabic or thaana) term. Rare? Sure, but
> perfectly reasonably.
Then why isn't bidi-paragraph-direction the solution? It can be put
in file-local variables.
> BTW, I'm reporting my experience with running bidi enabled emacs on my
> text files. I found the section in the manual easily enough. But if I
> wouldn't read emacs-devel, I'd have no idea what was going on.
I'm not sure I understand. If you are saying that the manual could
use some improvement, please suggest what else should be told there.
If you mean something else, please tell what is it.
> Say I have a paragraph displayed as
>
> |A blah blah
>
> Now I insert the left-to-right mark. This results in:
>
> AM blah blah
Sorry, I don't understand the recipe. Without the LRM, that paragraph
should have been displayed flushed to the right margin, like this:
bla bla A
Is that your original display? If so, where's the cursor when you
insert the LRM: to the left of A or to the right?
> which seems … weird.
I cannot reproduce this, but what am I missing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-01 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-01 19:06 bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to Florian Beck
2011-08-01 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-01 19:59 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-01 20:17 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-08-01 21:09 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-02 2:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-03 18:50 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-03 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-03 20:49 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-04 3:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-08-04 19:04 ` Florian Beck
2011-08-04 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
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