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

[Chong Yidong]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't think so.  The former is a much simpler problem, because it
> has to do with text that normally isn't edited nor submitted to
> external programs.  It is basically a problem of concatenating strings
> subject to certain restrictions wrt their layout on the screen, like
> "make str1 display to the left of str2".
>
> The latter problem is much harder, because it needs a capability to
> reorder only certain portions of a buffer.

Here's an idea: how bout if programming language and related buffers
employ a modified bidi type table in which punctuation characters
(like + " and <) are bidi segment separators (S)?

AFAICT, this hack would fix most of the garbaging problems in source
code as some others like "buffername<1>".