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bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:49:48 -0400 |
tags 9571 + wontfix
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:18:46 -0700
>
> Dunno if this is still the latest word, but in the emacs-devel thread
> "`C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?", I was told that
> the way for a user to turn off bidi is to set `bidi-display-reordering'
> to nil. Since it is buffer-local, that presumably means putting this
> in .emacs if you want to turn it off everywhere:
>
> (setq-default bidi-display-reordering nil)
Yes.
> 1. That's not very user-friendly. We should have a user option that
> does this, i.e., gives users an easy way to disable this feature if they
> don't want to use it.
No, at least not for now.
> 2. I see nothing in the Emacs doc that tells users clearly that if they
> want to turn off bidi editing then they should set the default value of
> this internal variable to nil. Users should be told this.
No. Consistent with the above.
> FWIW, I turn it off because both (a) it slows down Emacs (no, I don't
> have a test case and I won't be coming up with one) and (b) I have no
> need for bidi editing, at least for now. If you don't believe (a), then
> at least accept (b): I don't _want_ to use it.
Suit yourself, but I see no need to make the bidi display a mode that
can be turned on and off. So at least for Emacs 24.1 I'm not gonna
fix this.
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Drew Adams, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Drew Adams, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/23