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: Pretest begins end-June Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y61ojhp4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <83zkm4f3es.fsf@gnu.org> <83sjrvgaf5.fsf@gnu.org> <87sjrvgvg8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87oc2jgrq0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306835950 10454 80.91.229.12 (31 May 2011 09:59:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:59:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 11:59:06 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj6-0001x1-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 11:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48336 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj6-00066O-IU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj3-000666-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj2-00072J-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:44952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj2-00072F-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QRLj2-00023j-Cu; Tue, 31 May 2011 05:59:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87oc2jgrq0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 31 May 2011 11:11:03 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:139951 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:11:03 +0200 > > > Well, at least with R2L users can turn off the reordering if it > > happens to screw them up too badly. > > Unless the screwup asserts itself in the form of an infloop. I meant turn off for the next session ;-) > Anyway, as opposed to normal R2L rendering, it is rather unlikely > that display strings and overlays will happen without some explicit > user request being involved. For some value of "explicit", unfortunately. As you know only too well, even TAB-completion in the minibuffer uses an overlay with an after-string when it displays the "[Complete, but not unique]" message. And visiting an image file uses a display property. Etc., etc.