From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Re: improving bidi documents display Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:03:45 +0200 Message-ID: <83k4gixj6m.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837hcpryxr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wrklpzii.fsf@maru.md5i.com> <83aahhnpr3.fsf@gnu.org> <4D6DA6E6.70509@it.aoyama.ac.jp> <87zkpe9rfp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299038729 19493 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2011 04:05:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 04:05:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eli.osherovich@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, md5i@md5i.com, emacs-bidi@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 02 05:05:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PudJR-0005Px-3f for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:05:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PudJQ-0004zC-AW for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39633 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PudJO-0004z7-3U for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PudJN-0004bu-3h for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PudJM-0004bh-Pj; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 23:05:17 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LHE00J00WMDSA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:05:10 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.183.216]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LHE00J1OWOERM30@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:05:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87zkpe9rfp.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-bidi@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of Emacs support for multi-directional text." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bidi:852 gmane.emacs.devel:136703 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , eli.osherovich@gmail.com, Micha= el Welsh Duggan , emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gn= u.org > Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:39:22 +0900 >=20 > "Martin J. D=C3=BCrst" writes: > >> Overlay, not text property. The latter modifies the buffer, whi= ch is > >> not what you want in this case. > > > > Just a factual question: What does it mean when you say that > > properties modify the buffer? >=20 > Adding/changing text properties marks the buffer as "modified." >=20 > One can avoid that effect by using the `with-silent-modifications' = macro. Yes, but then copying the text copies the properties with it, which i= s not what you want in this case, in general.