Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> Then what about the other alternative that was proposed: separate
> fields with TABs, possibly invisible?  That would at most give you TAB
> characters, which are just ASCII.  No one responded to that suggestion
> yet.

Then you get TABs popping up unexpectedly on cut and paste (since
invisible properties are discarded by yank-excluded-properties).

Conceptually, it makes sense for buffer text to contain LRMs for
handling embedded RTL text, so there is no reason for Emacs to avoid
inserting them---as long as RTL text is really present.