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: Bidirectional text and URLs Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:48:32 +0200 Message-ID: <83388y6rb3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a93cngwv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837fyfml31.fsf@gnu.org> <874mtio7wh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83r3wml8kq.fsf@gnu.org> <83a938aeuc.fsf@gnu.org> <838uir8huv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417531731 13657 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2014 14:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 02 15:48:44 2014 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 1Xvokr-0003ty-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvokr-0006I2-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvokh-0006Hk-U9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:48:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvokb-0001Eo-8x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:48:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:62374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvoka-0001Dq-VG; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NFY00D00MF0A500@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:48:23 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NFY00CBPMGNEKA0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:48:23 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 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:178692 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:42:38 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman > CC: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > One idea: change the mode line color when there is any RTL text > > > (in the buffer, or on the screen, whichever is easier). > > > That's possible, but I think it's too drastic. Just having RTL text > > doesn't yet constitute any danger or require special vigilance on the > > part of the user, > > It requires special vigilance if the user isn't expecting it! > > I am not saying that RTL per se is dangerous. I'm suggesting we > should warn users very visibly about RTL text it if they don't > normally use it and are perhaps not expecting it. We don't know if this particular user normally uses RTL. We could introduce an option through which users could tell us that they want such warnings. But in general, things that are not dangerous don't warrant a warning.