From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improving bidi documents display Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:07:24 +0200 Message-ID: <83wrkgx2wz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837hcpryxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrklpzii.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <83aahhnpr3.fsf@gnu.org> <4D6DA6E6.70509@it.aoyama.ac.jp> <87zkpe9rfp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <83k4gixj6m.fsf@gnu.org> <83aahdxt74.fsf@gnu.org> <87ipw19ef2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299125394 11928 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2011 04:09:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 04:09:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eli.osherovich@gmail.com, md5i@md5i.com, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 03 05:09:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuzrJ-0007rt-18 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:09:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60200 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuzrI-0001pH-46 for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:09:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35098 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuzrF-0001n9-FZ for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:09:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuzrE-0005If-1T for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:09:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:37169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PuzrD-0005Ib-PO; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHG00D00RGGGX00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:09:27 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.183.216]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHG00DKWRJP3GC0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:09:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ipw19ef2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:858 gmane.emacs.devel:136736 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: eli.osherovich@gmail.com, md5i@md5i.com, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:32:49 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Sure, but that's a general issue in Emacs, so there are already > >> mechanisms in place to help deal with it > >> (e.g. yank-excluded-properties). > > > > This one's different, believe me: no other text property changes the > > _order_ of characters on display in creative ways. It could easily > > render the text illegible, under just the right circumstances. > > But isn't the "changed order" natural for the characters it's attached > to? Only in the context of the kind of text (e.g., TeX) it was copied from.