From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RTL text and the new `indent-rigidly'
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:31:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mwjua9ly.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppoqsq0x.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 13:59:26 +0800
>
> The new behavior of indent-rigidly in Emacs 24.4 seems to be
> inconsistent with our existing handling of right-to-left text.
>
> In right-to-left text, the left and right arrow keys move in the visual
> sense (whereas C-f and C-b move in the logical sense). However, when
> you call `C-x TAB' (indent-rigidly) to activate the new transient mode
> for adjusting indentation interactively, the left key indents the text
> rightward, and the right key indents the text leftward.
That's a bug.
> I think these subcommands should check current-bidi-paragraph-direction,
> and indent in the visual sense.
We should definitely do that, thank you for paying attention.
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2013-12-21 5:59 RTL text and the new `indent-rigidly' Chong Yidong
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