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Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why? |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:08:57 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:35:12 +0200
>
> lllllRRRRRRlllll
> ^
Is this the visual order (on the screen) or the logical order (in the
buffer)?
> If I move left, I jump backward over the RL text to the end of the LR
> text. If I move right, I move 1 character backward in the RL text.
IIUC the example, the first sentence is true, the second is false.
> Now that is what I would expect to happen. However, not the _current_
> direction decides whether to reverse left/right movement, but the
> _paragraph_ direction.
What do you mean by the "current direction"?
> If this is a LR paragraph (like it likely is), left will move right
> in the RRRRRR section and vice versa.
True.
> This is what Hebrew writers expect?
Yes.
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, (continued)
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Andy Moreton, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/03
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/02
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/03
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/03
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/03
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/03
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/04
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Ehud Karni, 2011/06/05
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/05
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Ehud Karni, 2011/06/05
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/05
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/05
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, David Kastrup, 2011/06/05