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bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to
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Florian Beck |
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bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:04:21 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Sigh. The only thing I omitted was
>>
>> (setq cursor-type 'bar)
>
> A bar cursor is drawn on the right side of R2L characters, but on the
> left side of L2R characters. Is this what confused you?
Yes.
> So I think you only _think_ you have the LRM character between the
> aleph and the following a, because the bar cursor makes a small
> movement when you move from aleph to the a, but is shown between aleph
> and a in both positions.
Yet <right> moves the point from 2 to 3. Ah, I get it: the cursor moves
from the right of the alef to the left of the a. Obvious, when you think
about it…
> In fact, the LRM is to the left of aleph, you should be able to see
> that if you modify LRM's entry in glyphless-char-display-control.
Ok.
>
>> (but the cursor movement in rtl paragraphs confuses me, too).
>
> It takes some time to get used to. The manual says something vague
> about it, like "don't be afraid, it's not a bug" or something.
>From the manual and the docstrings I had the impression that <up>,
<down>, <right> and <left> would move visually. That is not the case.
See my example. Also, <right> moves to the left (inside the ltr text
inside the rtl paragraph).
--
Florian Beck
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Florian Beck, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Florian Beck, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Florian Beck, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/01
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Florian Beck, 2011/08/03
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/03
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Florian Beck, 2011/08/03
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/03
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to,
Florian Beck <=
- bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/04