From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4E48D309.6050503@acdlabs.ru> <83hb5jujjs.fsf@gnu.org> <874o1j10zv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vctyahcp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313427484 1768 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2011 16:58:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:58:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 15 18:57:59 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 1Qt0UB-0001JO-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:57:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0UA-00073B-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42857) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0U7-00072V-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0U6-0003aA-8J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:55 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:58469 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qt0U3-0003ZR-R1; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:51 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAItPSU5FxKeo/2dsb2JhbABCqBJ4gUABAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiAO3eoZHBJ9uhDU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,375,1309752000"; d="scan'208";a="131285733" Original-Received: from 69-196-167-168.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([69.196.167.168]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 15 Aug 2011 12:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 501E266139; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:57:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87vctyahcp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:18:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.183 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:143253 Archived-At: > Nothing wrong with that. I'd like to avoid a situation where we'll need > to backpaddle to make it work well. The only special thing we have currently installed is string-mark-left-to-right which is not only a trivial functionality that's easy to support in the future, but whose uses are also trivial to find if we come up with something better in the future. So, I think it will do fine. Feel free to experiment with a patch to `format' which we might even include in 24.2, but that's too risky at this point. Stefan