Re: Emacs26: Quick thoughts on display-line-numbers-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "John Wiegley" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:25:09 -0400
> 
> EZ> I don't know. It doesn't strike me as blatantly wrong, to give you just
> EZ> one data point. I guess we will have to hear more from users. In general,
> EZ> buffers with changing paragraph direction are quite rare, btw.
> 
> As someone who edits R2L buffers, I'd prefer line numbers always being on one
> side of the buffer or the other -- hopefully with an easy way to fix the side,
> or toggle it depending on what I'm doing. English text with R2L in it is
> usually a different scenario than R2L with some English in it.

If you have R2L text with some English in it, you can easily arrange
for paragraph direction always being R2L.

But your opinion is noted, thanks.  I still think we need much more
feedback before we decide to change the current implementation,
especially since it's not a trivial change.