From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bidirectional text and URLs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83zjbbkwnj.fsf@gnu.org> <834mtiaqcv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417340284 18984 80.91.229.3 (30 Nov 2014 09:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 30 10:37:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0x5-0002Hj-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:37:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0x4-0001AM-PT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33873) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0wr-0001A4-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0wq-0006Kj-4A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58035) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0wq-0006Kf-1X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv0wo-0003Ja-7D; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 04:37:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <834mtiaqcv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 29 Nov 2014 19:06:24 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:178498 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > We seem to be talking about different questions. > > You're talking about "some...text" but the question was specifically URLs. > URLs are a special case of human-readable text. Yes, but that's not the point. The point is that your special cases The places where bidi characters should work are human-readable text. don't overlap with URLs. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.