From: "\"Martin J. Dürst\"" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Column numbering in bidirectional display
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:30:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2AC869.8030502@it.aoyama.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83tyq1pqov.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello Eli,
On 2010/05/21 18:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So on balance, I think we should keep the current semantics of the
> line numbering, whereby columns are numbered in strict logical order.
>
> If we decide to go that way, we will need to provide primitives or
> subroutines to get to the visually first and last characters of a
> visual line. That's because some features need that; see the thread
> Re: Hl-line and visual-line for one example. beginning-of-visual-line
> and end-of-visual-line sound like a good starting point.
>
> Comments are welcome.
I agree that keeping column numbering as currently available in logical
ordering. I think that at least in the long run, you will need more
visual-related functions than just beginning-of-visual-line and
end-of-visual-line.
Regards, Martin.
--
#-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 4:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-21 9:08 Column numbering in bidirectional display Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-21 9:30 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-21 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-05-21 13:20 ` Yair F
2010-05-21 14:07 ` David Kastrup
2010-05-22 0:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-30 4:30 ` "Martin J. Dürst" [this message]
2010-06-30 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-07-01 1:36 ` "Martin J. Dürst"
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