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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:49:51 -0400
> 
>         Stefan "who still finds it odd that keeping <right> pressed may
>                 end up stopping in the middle of the buffer"

FWIW, the same happens in several other bidi-aware apps that support
paragraphs of different direction in the same document.

Of course, C-f/C-b don't have these problems, so can be used as a
workaround.