From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:57:54 -0300 Message-ID: References: <6F4054004B154CFB8E2753172D316C13@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306727893 15056 80.91.229.12 (30 May 2011 03:58:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 03:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 30 05:58:05 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 1QQtc9-0005d0-Qk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:58:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57985 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQtc9-0003eC-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 23:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQtc6-0003du-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 23:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQtc5-0002Zl-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 23:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQtc5-0002Zh-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 May 2011 23:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:33693 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQtc4-0001MZ-Q1; Sun, 29 May 2011 23:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 09717660D3; Mon, 30 May 2011 00:57:54 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 27 May 2011 18:54:51 -0700") 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:139885 Archived-At: >> I can see why you'd want that, > Well, good. Is there a way to get it? That's the question. AFAICT, there is no way to get it in the general and default case (when bidi-display-reordering is non-nil), which is the only case which would make sense to solve. Stefan