Re: Bidi Emacs: R2L paragraphs and the direction of glyph_row

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> This issue is borderline between design and implementation, but the
> decision will affect lots of code to be written/changed later, so I'm
> posting this here, in case there are some considerations that I
> missed.
>

I've got lots of complaints about the way most bidi-enabled editors handle
keyboard and cursor interaction; would a list of specific annoyances, er,
use-cases be of any use?

For example, in Mellel (http://www.redlers.com/) I've discovered that if an
RTL document starts with an LTR string, it is impossible to simply insert a
linefeed in front of that string.  It's also a major pain to edit XML in a
bidi editor.  And I do mean major.  If emacs could make it easy and natural
to perform such operations it would be manna from heaven.

Cheers,

Gregg

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