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: RTL text and the new `indent-rigidly' Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:31:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83mwjua9ly.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ppoqsq0x.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387614713 6875 80.91.229.3 (21 Dec 2013 08:31:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 08:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 21 09:31:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VuHyU-0005mr-Ir for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:31:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53436 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VuHyU-0006Au-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 03:31:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VuHyO-0006Ap-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 03:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VuHyI-000803-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 03:31:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:43518) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VuHyB-0007zg-T0; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 03:31:36 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MY500600EBWWZ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:31:34 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MY5006U1ECMTH30@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:31:34 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87ppoqsq0x.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:166691 Archived-At: > From: Chong Yidong > 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.