From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.bidi Subject: Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:15:13 -0300 Message-ID: References: <83bpkgl113.fsf@gnu.org> <8362qbsj7p.fsf@gnu.org> <83y636grgj.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303269331 14612 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2011 03:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 03:15:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 05:15:23 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 1QCNsv-00032g-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:15:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53304 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCNsu-0000jV-Sn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCNss-0000jD-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCNsr-0002jd-Er for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:56729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCNsp-0002jJ-II; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 121-249-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.249.121]:41694 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCNsp-0004xX-8y; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:15:15 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 032ED662B5; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:15:14 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <83y636grgj.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:02:04 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:138585 gmane.emacs.bidi:870 Archived-At: > Well, that's my fault: "stop reordering" is simply misleading. > What I meant by that was that the reordering will completely process > all the text before (in the logical order) the part covered by a > display property, then process the display spec, and only then reorder > the text after the property. > So this buffer text > ABCDE display XYZ > will be reordered as > EDCBA display ZYX > instead of more sensible > ZYX display EDCBA > under the new plan. Thanks. That makes sense, Stefan