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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: 9571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu <at> gmail.com, stepnem <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:10:51 +0300

> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:24:03 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 9571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu <at> gmail.com, stepnem <at> gmail.com
> 
> > cursor positioning [is] the tricky part of your changes, and IIUC
> > the only part that can't just be turned off by bidi-display-reordering
> 
> By and large, yes.  But cursor positioning is very central to user
> experience.  And there are other, less major pieces of the display
> engine that were modified without keeping the old code conditioned on
> bidi-display-reordering.

I remembered another important piece of code that doesn't pay
attention to bidi-display-reordering: mouse highlight.  It was
completely reimplemented with bidi-aware code.
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