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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: eli.osherovich@gmail.com, md5i@md5i.com, emacs-bidi@gnu.org,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: improving bidi documents display
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:32:49 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipw19ef2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83aahdxt74.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:39:43 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> 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?

-miles

-- 
XML is like violence.  If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not
using enough of it.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 12:32 improving bidi documents display Eli Osherovich
2011-02-24 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-27 10:01   ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-02-27 10:34     ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-02-27 21:19       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02  1:50         ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-03-02  4:02           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-04 10:34             ` [emacs-bidi] " "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-02-27 21:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-28  1:10       ` Miles Bader
2011-02-28  4:02         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02  0:58       ` James Cloos
2011-03-02 18:59         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02  2:09       ` [emacs-bidi] " "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-03-02  2:39         ` Miles Bader
2011-03-02  4:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-02  7:06             ` Miles Bader
2011-03-02 18:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03  1:32                 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-03-03  4:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-03  6:11                     ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-03-03 10:40                       ` [emacs-bidi] " Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-04 10:34                         ` "Martin J. Dürst"
2011-03-04  3:58                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-04  8:04                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-04  4:25                 ` Miles Bader
2011-03-04  9:52                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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