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Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reorder
From: |
Ehud Karni |
Subject: |
Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default) |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:51:54 +0300 |
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:53:29 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> In general, having something like this on display:
>
> printf ("FEDCBA %d PONMLK %f ZYX %lu\n", foo, bar, baz);
>
> for a source that in logical order reads
>
> printf ("ABCDEF %d KLMNOP %f XYZ %lu\n", foo, bar, baz);
>
> which is what you suggest, is only marginally better than the original
> logical-order string, because the reading order is ambiguous at best,
> and downright undecipherable in more complex situations, where the
> format string includes punctuation and L2R text. So if we think the
> above is acceptable, we might as well consider not reordering this at
> all.
I agree.
The default setting of bidi reordering for this kind of buffer should
be nil. I think a (global) function that toggles the bidi reordering
ONLY for the local buffer should ease the work of Emacs users.
Ehud.
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- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, (continued)
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Stefan Monnier, 2011/08/18
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/20
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default), Andreas Schwab, 2011/08/20
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/20
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers (was: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default),
Ehud Karni <=
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/25
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers, Ehud Karni, 2011/08/25
- Re: bidi reordering in program source buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/25
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Chong Yidong, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/20
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/08/19
- Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default, Andrey Paramonov, 2011/08/15