Subject: bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:44:31 -0400

> If the reordering has confusing effects, turning off bidi display
    > would enable you to see clearly what the real order is in the buffer.

    As I said (following Stefan), find-file-literally has that effect.

It has a lot of other effects too, which are painful except when you
happen to want them.  That is no substitute for what I'm suggesting.

Why are you opposed to a flag to turn bidi display off?

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