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

[Andrey Paramonov]

On 16.08.2011 14:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:02:49 +0400
> > From: Andrey Paramonov<address@hidden>
> >
> >   >  If a comment or a string in a source file use R2L scripts, how
> >   >  would you like Emacs to display them?
> >
> > Frankly, I doubt that there is a single source file with R2L comments in
> > the world, let alone R2L identifiers.
>
> I wasn't talking about identifiers.
>
> I don't know how many comments in R2L languages are out there, but I
> hope you will agree that strings with R2L text are a definite
> possibility, and should be supported.

Sorry, I misread "strings" for "identifiers". Strings are important indeed.

> > Unlike "special" and plain-text buffers, the bidirectionalization of
> > programming modes just seems to have very little to no value right now.
>
> Which is why the relevant support for them was not the 1st priority.
> But that doesn't mean we need to dismiss it as something to be
> supported in the future.

Sure.

Best wishes,
Andrey Paramonov