From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BIDI, LaTeX (auctex) and the «evil» backslash
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 21:34:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83futb6z0m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4732tmn.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Sat, 21 May 2016 17:44:32 +0000)
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 17:44:32 +0000
>
> > The last one is possible, of course (this is Emacs), but that way lies
> > madness: arbitrarily changing bidirectional properties of characters
> > will bite you elsewhere, because the corresponding tables are global.
>
> So that cannot be restricted just to LaTeX mayor modes?
No, the tables are global (they are quite large).
> In any case how could I change the backslash on a lisp level, ie change
>
> (get-char-code-property ?\\ 'bidi-class)
>
> >From ON to whatever is necessary.
You want put-char-code-property, I think. (Never tried this myself.)
> > The other 3 alternatives are indeed the available solutions.
> > Personally, I recommend the 1st one; I see no problem with typing
> > RTL text in a left-to-right paragraph (and vice versa), and don't
> > understand what unpleasant things you bump into when doing that.
> > TeX files are fundamentally left-to-right, as any program text, so
> > that would be my suggestion.
>
> Well I don't like the cursor movements in such a situation
Did you try setting visual-order-cursor-movement non-nil? Maybe
that's all you need to solve your problems?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-21 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-21 13:55 BIDI, LaTeX (auctex) and the «evil» backslash Uwe Brauer
2016-05-21 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-21 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-21 17:44 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-05-21 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-21 20:20 ` Uwe Brauer
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