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: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:12:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83bp8oml9c.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283326149 17595 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2010 07:29:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:29:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Amit Aronovitch , eliz@gnu.org, emacs-bidi@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 09:29:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oqhko-0008Vy-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:29:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oqhkn-0001TG-Im for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51413 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oqhj7-00014n-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqhVD-0000HN-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.2]:58426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqhVD-0000H4-4T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:12:59 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost6.adm.correo ([10.20.102.127]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id 1JNn1f00P2kvMAa3MKCxDF; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:12:57 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.40.7.141]) by IMPmailhost6.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id 1KCw1f00432ZxvX1mKCw7y; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:12:57 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4E2DD660DF; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:12:56 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:55:38 +0900") 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-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129542 gmane.emacs.bidi:790 Archived-At: > It seems that gedit uses the actual x-pixel-position to move the > cursor down. It will be better Emacs does the same in the future. The future has passed when Emacs-23 was released. Nowadays "columns" are mostly used for filling and indentation purposes (they're mostly OK for indentation, but they're not that good for filling, tho word-wrap makes this less clear). Stefan