From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: right-char and left-char
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:04:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762k1ojy0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83pqiagew4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:21:15 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The intended behavior is what you see now in Emacs. The manual is
> correct for the important special case of the paragraph direction that
> coincides with the text direction. Most L2R text in the world is in
> L2R paragraphs and most R2L text is in R2L paragraphs, so the
> description covers most of the use cases.
>
> As for the less common use case you mention, yes, the description in
> the manual could mislead if read too literally; "text is read
> left-to-right" is intentionally vague to at least not be blatantly
> wrong.
This lands us in the unfortunate situation where a command named
`left-char' sometimes moves right, and a command named `right-char'
sometimes moves left. Their names seem to imply that what distinguishes
these commands from `forward-char'/`backward-char' is their
directionality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 16:45 right-char and left-char Chong Yidong
2011-10-06 18:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:04 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2011-10-06 22:45 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-07 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 1:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-07 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-06 22:20 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-07 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-07 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
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