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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9571@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:44:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1R7Bfm-0005PC-7f@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sjnnqpts.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:46:23 +0300)

    What confusion are you referring to?

Not being sure about the order, in the buffer, of the characters you see
on the screen.

					  Are we talking about a buffer
    with or without R2L characters?

It would have to be a case where characters that have bidi
significance are present.  If there are none, there is no reordering,
thus no possibility it can cause confusion.

				     And how would setting
    bidi-display-reordering to nil resolve that confusion?

You would see all the characters in the order that they
appear in the buffer.

I don't envision anyone would want to edit this way.  But it could be
useful to look at this kind of display once in a while.

    Because the unidirectional display will one day go away, and having a
    user option will be an obstacle to getting rid of it.

Why should it ever be deleted?  What is gained by deleting it?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-23 19:44 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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