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: Bar cursor in bidirectional text Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83bp8zra6b.fsf@gnu.org> <4C79541C.1030105@swipnet.se> <83fwxylcmc.fsf@gnu.org> <4C7A3841.8020800@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283081184 19787 80.91.229.12 (29 Aug 2010 11:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 29 13:26:23 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Opg1j-0005vC-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:26:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Opg1j-0006bG-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52642 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Opg1e-0006bA-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Opg1d-00060u-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:48058) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Opg1d-00060p-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Opg1c-0001S4-7h; Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:26:12 -0400 In-reply-to: <4C7A3841.8020800@swipnet.se> (message from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= on Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:36:49 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129388 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:36:49 +0200 > From: Jan Djärv > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-08-28 22.13: > > > > > emacs -Q > > C-h H > > M-: (setq cursor-type 'bar) RET > > > > Now move to one of the lines that use R2L scripts, e.g. Arabic or > > Hebrew, and use C-f to get to the Arabic or Hebrew letters. You > > should see the cursor positioned to the right of each R2L letter, as > > opposed to the left in L2R scripts. To make sure the cursor is indeed > > to the right of a letter, you could use "C-x =" to show the character > > at point. > > Thanks, I checked in the code. Thank you! > Isn't the bar cursor kind ugly BTW? Yes. I always wondered why we don't use the bar cursor provided by the windowing infrastructure, toolkit, etc. Ours looks unprofessional, IMO.