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

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

>  > And then move that string when text is inserted after the preceding
>  > non-mark character, or that character is deleted, yes?  Sounds like
>  > fun.
>
> Put that way, not at all.  But you know what?  Emacs has long ago
> solved such problems, at least most of them.  IIUC, in XEmacs, this
> could easily be implemented with a zero-length extent with appropriate
> stickiness attributes.  If Emacs doesn't already have such a device,

Text properties can't be zero-length, overlays don't copy along with
text.  If this were different, you could copy an empty region and could
not be sure that it did not contain extents after all.

-- 
David Kastrup