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: Nested display strings Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:28:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83hb9k98ar.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k4ekc3z1.fsf@gnu.org> <8339l7blfe.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjt6nmnw.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <831v0q9kbj.fsf@gnu.org> <87tydkvqhd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303842498 32428 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2011 18:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 26 20:28:14 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 1QEmzd-0002jO-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:28:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEmzd-000787-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:28:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEmza-00077x-RA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:28:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEmzZ-0001QB-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:37450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QEmzZ-0001Q3-66 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LK900J00V61GA00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:28:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.59.73]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LK900I08VAUR1C0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:28:07 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tydkvqhd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:138805 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:04:30 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> It's probably better to leave the current behavior as-is. > > > > You mean, to continue displaying the "outer" display string twice? > > Surely, not being able to display a warning doesn't mean we need to > > keep the current behavior. We could behave differently (silently), > > can't we? > > Does changing this make it easier for bidi to do the right thing? Yes, most probably (although I cannot be 100% sure until I sit down to write the code).