Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105429: New function `string-mark-left-to-right' for handling LRMs.

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Btw, is there a way to regex-search for a character by its bidi
> category?  That would make the code more elegant, and probably quite
> faster as well.

I don't think so, and anyway such a regex-search would still have to go
through the functions of mule-cmds.el.  A better optimization might be
to provide the equivalents of `next-property-change' etc. for char code
properties.

In practice, testing indicates string-mark-left-to-right has acceptable
speed for its present uses in buffer menu and tabulated list mode.
Unless a real problem shows up (e.g. when we apply the fix to Gnus),
let's revisit this issue later.

>> 			     (aref str n) 'bidi-class) '(R AL))
>                                                        ^^^^^^^
> Make that '(R AL RLO), since the RLO character overrides the
> bidirectional properties of all the following characters with R.

OK, committed along with doc changes.

>> then the buffer is displayed as 1>[some Arabic text]>, both in the
>> mode-line and in the buffer menu.
>
> I didn't mean the display of the buffer name itself; that is a
> separate issue, as discussed here:

Was there any resolution on that thread?