GNU bug report logs - #9571
24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:24:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 9571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> m17n.org
Subject: bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:52:20 -0400

    I don't think modifying entries in a char-table creates a new one.  It
    just modifies entries in the existing one.  Perhaps Handa-san could
    comment on that.

It would be terribly unclean to change that data structure globally
rather than make a copy.  And it would affect all buffers at once.
This ought to be a per-buffer feature.

    It could be done, but why hard-code in C what can be done in Lisp?

Because there is only one thing to be done, and it is so simple in C.

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