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: Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:21:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83tyu0hfll.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tyu3iu6b.fsf@gnu.org> <4B645FF4.30205@gmx.at> <83ockbil1v.fsf@gnu.org> <4B646AD3.1010102@gmx.at> <83mxzviio5.fsf@gnu.org> <4B647AE5.5090001@gmx.at> <83ljffif09.fsf@gnu.org> <4B648C6E.8080905@gmx.at> <83eil7i84h.fsf@gnu.org> <4B654F24.5020603@gmx.at> <83aavui23z.fsf@gnu.org> <4B65E199.6070100@gmx.at> <833a1lioie.fsf@gnu.org> <4B66922D.9060304@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265055795 18106 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2010 20:23:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-bidi-bounces+gnu-emacs-bidi=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 01 21:23:12 2010 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 1Nc2nf-0007ND-LD for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:23:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2ne-0007kB-VY for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2nb-0007iW-Tm for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59746 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nc2na-0007hH-Mp for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc2nY-0005HC-St for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40274) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nc2nY-0005Gs-Gp; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KX600900J79B800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:21:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.67.249]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KX60040UJ7KE7F0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:21:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4B66922D.9060304@gmx.at> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:493 gmane.emacs.devel:120791 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:34:53 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > CC: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > It might be probably interesting for a user to dynamically switch during > typing whether a buffer should be dominantly displayed as R2L or L2R. I already implemented such a feature: a per-buffer variable that forces all paragraphs to be either L2R or R2L. A value of `nil' means the direction of each paragraph is dynamically determined by applying the rules described in the Unicode Standard Annex 9 (UAX#9).