From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uwe Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: implementing BIDI isolates, and make LRM and RLM visible Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 17:41:16 +0000 Message-ID: <87zis8tl1f.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462210928 20143 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2016 17:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:42:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 19:41:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1axHr4-0000m3-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 19:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axHr0-0005xw-L8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 13:41:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axHqq-0005iW-0m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 13:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axHqe-0000BG-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 13:41:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1axHqe-00008S-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 13:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1axHqT-0000Vo-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2016 19:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from 131.red-88-1-251.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.1.251.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 May 2016 19:41:21 +0200 Original-Received: from oub by 131.red-88-1-251.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 May 2016 19:41:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.red-88-1-251.dynamicip.rima-tde.net Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130016 (Ma Gnus v0.16) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lzkhKX10Du50Qio4HoVXtDh1Unc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:203526 Archived-At: Hello According https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bidirectional-Display.html the actual BIDI support «does not yet support the isolate directional formatting». I presume that has to do with fact that if in one line I mix say Hebrew with English text and I want to switch editing between them then, in order to do that in any comfortable way (cursor movements etc) I end up that the whole buffer will be displayed either R2L or L2R and not the individual paragraphs. In any case I wish I could help implementing this missing feature, but I cannot so I simply ask: any plans for the near future? Meanwhile I try to use LRM and RLM to deal with such situations. However is there a way to make them visible, at least buffer local? thanks Uwe Brauer