From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrey Paramonov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:27:59 +0400 Message-ID: <4E4A543F.1050201@acdlabs.ru> References: "83liutu2yw.fsf@gnu.org" <4E4A4049.2010202@acdlabs.ru> <83ei0ltzaw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313501471 31504 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2011 13:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 15:31:07 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QtJjS-0000DA-UH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:31:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtJjS-0001Xi-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtHoV-0007SA-1n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtHoU-0003bO-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from acdlab.moscow.itn.ru ([80.240.99.126]:63289) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QtHoT-0003bK-IL; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (acdlab11.acdlabs.ru [82.97.201.11]) by acdlab.Moscow.itn.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p7GBOkWD055678; Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:24:47 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from paramon@acdlabs.ru) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 In-Reply-To: <83ei0ltzaw.fsf@gnu.org> X-ACDLabs-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: p7GBOkWD055678 X-ACDLabs-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-ACDLabs-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.629, required 6, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, FSL_RU_URL 2.27) X-ACDLabs-MailScanner-From: paramon@acdlabs.ru X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-Received-From: 80.240.99.126 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:31:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:143305 Archived-At: On 16.08.2011 14:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:02:49 +0400 >> From: Andrey Paramonov >> >> > If a comment or a string in a source file use R2L scripts, how >> > would you like Emacs to display them? >> >> Frankly, I doubt that there is a single source file with R2L comments in >> the world, let alone R2L identifiers. > > I wasn't talking about identifiers. > > I don't know how many comments in R2L languages are out there, but I > hope you will agree that strings with R2L text are a definite > possibility, and should be supported. > Sorry, I misread "strings" for "identifiers". Strings are important indeed. >> Unlike "special" and plain-text buffers, the bidirectionalization of >> programming modes just seems to have very little to no value right now. > > Which is why the relevant support for them was not the 1st priority. > But that doesn't mean we need to dismiss it as something to be > supported in the future. > Sure. Best wishes, Andrey Paramonov