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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: |
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:28:10 +0300 |
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:56:53 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The idea is that <left> moves forward when the paragraph direction is
> > L2R, and <right> moves forward in R2L paragraphs. But they both move
> > in the reading (a.k.a. "logical") order, which in Emacs means in the
> > direction of increasing character positions. Moving in strict visual
> > order (i.e. always left or right on the screen) is also possible, but
> > less desirable, because that's not the order in which people read the
> > text.
>
> Left/Right are for positioning the cursor. They have nothing to do with
> the order people read the text in.
Evidently, they do. At least many applications behave like Emacs
does.
> I don't want my mouse to change direction on RL text.
Not sure what "mouse direction" means here, and in what gestures.
> > But what you suggest is neither visual nor logical order,
>
> Huh? I suggest visual order. Period.
My misunderstanding, sorry.
> forward-character and backward-character require more thinking.
Not if you actually read the text, because the movement is in the
reading order.
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, (continued)
- 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, 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, 2011/06/03
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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, 2011/06/07
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/07
- Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?, PJ Weisberg, 2011/06/02