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: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a93cngwv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837fyfml31.fsf@gnu.org> <874mtio7wh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83r3wml8kq.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjb9an0q.fsf@gnu.org> <831toka82r.fsf@gnu.org> <83oaro8km7.fsf@gnu.org> <83k32b6u5l.fsf@gnu.org> <83h9xf6rzs.fsf@gnu.org> <83wq6a5c1q.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhmo63a9.fsf@gnu.org> <83vblr4uqi.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjb22v4n.fsf@gnu.org> <83388t3czq.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 1417867644 8929 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 12:07:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 12:07:24 +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 Sat Dec 06 13:07:18 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 1XxE8q-0005yg-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8q-0002Xl-5d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:07:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8S-0002UB-E3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8R-0001qv-HN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:48049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8R-0001ql-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxE8Q-00024c-Ah; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 07:06:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <83388t3czq.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:15:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 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:179161 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. ]]] > > In principle they might vary, but in practice I think most of them > > will use the characters in the order they appear in the buffer. > That's true, but that still doesn't say how should each application > show that to the user. I don't entirely understand what sort of variation you have in mind, but I think we should make all such applications handle this as uniformly as possible. -- 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.