From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master ff4de1b: Fix quoting style in Lisp comments Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:30:01 +0300 Message-ID: <838rzt5e06.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210912165141.9491.52637@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <831r5pbt7j.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnnhacy4.fsf@gnu.org> <40937e22-994f-466c-87be-4f70a522118a@yandex.ru> <83o88t9kgb.fsf@gnu.org> <9672aeae-a969-1526-003b-abb1b00b5b49@yandex.ru> <87sfy43dlt.fsf@gnus.org> <1a0f9230b7d75e426474@heytings.org> <838rzv8ozz.fsf@gnu.org> <83czp676df.fsf@gnu.org> <87bl4ppyt1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83a6k967co.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28070"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: juri@linkov.net, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, rudalics@gmx.at, gregory@heytings.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 19 07:31:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mRpQ8-00078z-5F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:31:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51888 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRpQ6-00048g-5H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:31:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRpPT-0003Pa-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:30:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46388) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRpPP-0001Ka-79; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:30:35 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2839 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mRpPE-0001BU-1d; Sun, 19 Sep 2021 01:30:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Kangas on Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:34:02 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:275040 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:34:02 -0700 > Cc: yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rudalics@gmx.at, > gregory@heytings.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dgutov@yandex.ru, > larsi@gnus.org > > You have said before: "So prettify-symbols-mode is semi-okay, as it is > usually turned on in PL modes, where everything is left-to-right."[1] For rendering _code_, i.e, symbols, yes. But here we are talking about comments and strings, which are a different matter altogether: they are human-readable text, and we should not prevent people from writing that text using bidirectional scripts. By contrast, the probability of someone calling a program symbol by a name with R2L characters is ... remote at best. > And what is the alternative to static compositions? The `display' text > property? If you want to display one character as another, either 'display' text properties (with string values) or overlay strings.