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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:46:23 +0300

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:31:33 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> If the confusion has to do with bidi, the feature you want for
> understanding it is to turn off bidi and nothing else.

What confusion are you referring to?  Are we talking about a buffer
with or without R2L characters?  And how would setting
bidi-display-reordering to nil resolve that confusion?

IOW, please describe the relevant use cases in more detail.  Without
that, I fear we are having a misunderstanding of some kind.

> It has to be easy to do, so why NOT do it?

Because the unidirectional display will one day go away, and having a
user option will be an obstacle to getting rid of it.  We have been
there with unibyte buffers.