From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20110731.085115.40009301.wl@gnu.org> <877h6yanje.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878vre95g3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87fwlm7fam.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87bowa7dza.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877h6y7chn.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <831ux6cv5o.fsf@gnu.org> <87d3gpku3o.fsf@gnus.org> <834o1ypa2b.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjphhnbj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312469784 2707 80.91.229.12 (4 Aug 2011 14:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 16:56:20 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLO-0003ZW-Jb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:56:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56284 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLO-0004jh-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLK-0004i1-Ic for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLG-0004UZ-DU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:40967) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLG-0004UV-C2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QozLG-00039W-0v; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:56:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:26 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142873 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:59:26 -0400 > > This said, I encourage other people to try and add some alternative > solution (such as adding a text property that can override the > bidi-class of the characters it covers, so you can have a "segment > separator" which is not a TAB), to see how well it works. As explained elsewhere, this will need a significant change in low-level scanning routines within bidi.c. Currently, they are mostly oblivious to text properties.