Re: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Does this behavior look reasonable?  If not, what are the
> alternatives?  Note that any alternative should be consistent about
> the fact that Emacs does not have a rigid line length, therefore any
> initial relative horizontal position of characters (before we split
> the window) is arbitrary, and is a function of the window's initial
> arbitrary width.
> 
> 


Eh, not saying it's a good alternative, maybe one could just _introduce_ 
a hard R2L paragraph start column setting, not  coupled to window width 
/or L2R line length/, any more than fill-column being 70 stops 
particular L2R lines being longer than 70. In some cases, unwrapped long 
L2R lines might thus spill past the R2L start column.
...Probably pretty obnoxious...

setting R2L start at max(render length of L2R lines given adequate 
space, or window width iff wrapping on)+C (C probably at or near 0) is 
not quite the same thing as a word-processor page-dimensions-based rigid 
length and could maybe work if that was known for the whole buffer, but 
as per other recent thread, emacs in particular probably doesn't have 
the luxury of such info in general.