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: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:54:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83y6jyat25.fsf@gnu.org> <4B5208E3.7050006@gmx.at> <83wrzhbxkf.fsf@gnu.org> <4B52D165.40008@gmx.at> <834omk8sbm.fsf@gnu.org> <4B5417B7.6060201@gmx.at> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263808765 18943 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2010 09:59:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:59:25 +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 Jan 18 10:59:17 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 4.50) id 1NWoO8-0000nh-KP for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:59:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWoO6-0005nK-AL for gnu-emacs-bidi@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWoNq-0005hA-9d for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NWoNk-0005cc-Ld for emacs-bidi@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49236 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NWoNj-0005c6-MK; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57007) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NWoNj-0001VB-0z; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:58:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NWoJx-0002hk-RB; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:54:53 -0500 In-reply-to: <4B5417B7.6060201@gmx.at> (message from martin rudalics on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:11:35 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:460 gmane.emacs.devel:120191 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:11:35 +0100 > From: martin rudalics > Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > [...] this means that with `transient-mark-mode' the region may > consist of up to three non-contiguous stretches of text on the > display as, for example, with text displayed as CBAabcFED and > `point' between B and A and `mark' between F and E. A and F would > _not_ be highlighted, I presume? Yes, that's right. (In fact, region highlight already works in the bidi version, so I just verified that 3 stretches of text are highlighted in this case ;-) However, this is how every other bidi-enabled application out there works, so users expect that and should not be surprised by this.