From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs 24's forward-char vs right-char behavior Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <379c8837-79c2-4692-8103-0bfa473f221e@wp13g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335306315 21574 80.91.229.3 (24 Apr 2012 22:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:25:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 00:25:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1SMoAd-0003NN-07 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:25:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SMoAb-00040O-T3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:25:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!wp13g2000pbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335306092 22401 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2012 22:21:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: wp13g2000pbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192208 comp.emacs:102422 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84619 Archived-At: if it's not too late, i think the semantics of =93forward-char=94 and =93right-char=94 should be exchanged (from what it currently is in emacs 24). =93forward-char=94's direction should be context sensitive. =93right-char=94 should always move to the right. At first i thought emacs can't do that because lots elisp code depends on =93forward-char=94's existing behavior. But on second thought, am thinking it's probably rare that elisp is used to process {Arabic, Persian (Iran), Hebrew} languages. After all, these weren't supported up to now. So, perhaps changing =93forward- char=94's behavior isn't too bad? Xah