From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 9571@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:49:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R6cAO-00083X-7i@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9B61D722D31422DB1526928AD7C993F@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)
tags 9571 + wontfix
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:18:46 -0700
>
> Dunno if this is still the latest word, but in the emacs-devel thread
> "`C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?", I was told that
> the way for a user to turn off bidi is to set `bidi-display-reordering'
> to nil. Since it is buffer-local, that presumably means putting this
> in .emacs if you want to turn it off everywhere:
>
> (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)
Yes.
> 1. That's not very user-friendly. We should have a user option that
> does this, i.e., gives users an easy way to disable this feature if they
> don't want to use it.
No, at least not for now.
> 2. I see nothing in the Emacs doc that tells users clearly that if they
> want to turn off bidi editing then they should set the default value of
> this internal variable to nil. Users should be told this.
No. Consistent with the above.
> FWIW, I turn it off because both (a) it slows down Emacs (no, I don't
> have a test case and I won't be coming up with one) and (b) I have no
> need for bidi editing, at least for now. If you don't believe (a), then
> at least accept (b): I don't _want_ to use it.
Suit yourself, but I see no need to make the bidi display a mode that
can be turned on and off. So at least for Emacs 24.1 I'm not gonna
fix this.
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 4:18 bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please Drew Adams
2011-09-22 5:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-22 12:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-22 13:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 4:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 12:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 14:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-23 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 18:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-23 19:44 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 3:56 ` Jason Rumney
2011-09-24 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 9:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 12:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 19:44 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 19:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 17:30 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 23:52 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-23 4:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 8:01 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-23 9:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-23 10:39 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-23 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-23 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-23 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 21:23 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-23 23:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-24 0:32 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-24 1:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-24 3:46 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-24 8:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-02-22 2:34 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-24 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 8:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-23 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 11:09 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-23 11:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-23 13:01 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-23 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 17:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-23 11:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 12:28 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-24 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-24 3:53 ` Jason Rumney
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