Re: Handling invisible text in bidirectional display

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:11:35 +0100
> From: martin rudalics <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> [...] this means that with `transient-mark-mode' the region may
> consist of up to three non-contiguous stretches of text on the
> display as, for example, with text displayed as CBAabcFED and
> `point' between B and A and `mark' between F and E.  A and F would
> _not_ be highlighted, I presume?

Yes, that's right.  (In fact, region highlight already works in the
bidi version, so I just verified that 3 stretches of text are
highlighted in this case ;-) However, this is how every other
bidi-enabled application out there works, so users expect that and
should not be surprised by this.
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