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[emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions
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Eli Zaretskii |
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[emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions |
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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:06:59 +0200 |
> From: Sascha Wilde <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:44:19 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 8. User control of visual order
> [...]
> > Emacs could
> > have a command called, say, `make-paragraph-left-to-right' that did
> > its job simply by inserting LRM at the beginning of the paragraph.
>
> I would suggest that Emacs should also have a way to visualize the
> otherwise invisible text direction marks so that:
>
> - it becomes transparent to the user whether the direction of an
> specific portion of the text is explicit or implicit defined
>
> - the user is provided with a simple way to remove the marks in case he
> wants to. (By simply deleting them the way he would do with any other
> regular character.)
Yes. That's what this part of my longish message was trying to say:
In addition, being able to show these formatting codes to the user
is a valuable feature, because the way reordered text looks might
not be otherwise understood or changed easily.
The "direction marks" you mention are the "formatting codes" I wrote
about.
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, (continued)
[emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/09
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Richard Stallman, 2009/10/10
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/10
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Richard Stallman, 2009/10/11
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/11
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Richard Stallman, 2009/10/12
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/12
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- [emacs-bidi] Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions,
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Re: [emacs-bidi] Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, Ehud Karni, 2009/10/10
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Re: [emacs-bidi] Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions, James Cloos, 2009/10/10