Re: [emacs-bidi] Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:11:33 -0300
> 
> It sounds very reasonable, but at the same time I don't understand in
> which way it differs from your earlier opinion that it should "stop
> reordering" (whose meaning is very unclear to me).

Well, that's my fault: "stop reordering" is simply misleading.

What I meant by that was that the reordering will completely process
all the text before (in the logical order) the part covered by a
display property, then process the display spec, and only then reorder
the text after the property.

So this buffer text

  ABCDE display XYZ

will be reordered as

  EDCBA display ZYX

instead of more sensible

  ZYX display EDCBA

under the new plan.