bug#24901: Patch updated slightly

[Reuben Thomas]

On 2 December 2016 at 15:55, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:40:58 +0000
> Cc: 24901@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On 2 December 2016 at 15:26, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>  So electric-pair-mode is incompatible with RTL scripts. Too bad.
>
> It seems to work for me: if I select a Hebrew keyboard layout, type some Hebrew letters, and then use double
> straight quotes, I get the expected result. If I use curly quotes, I get a different result, but perhaps that it
> because it implicitly changes the writing direction? I didn't get as far as trying to configure electric-pair-mode to
> understand Hebrew quotation marks.

The problem I was thinking about is that in RTL script you would type
the right quote first, to serve as the opening quote.  That's because
the quotes are not mirrored by the bidirectional reordering for
display, like parentheses are.

So, if you expect to be able to use the same quote characters without reconfiguration according to language, then it won't work. Otherwise, you can simply configure the quotes the other way around, and it should work (and change the documentation of electric-quote-pairs to mention "open" and "close" rather than "left" and "right"). But I guess this is a solved design problem that simply needs integrating into electric-pair-mode…

Change installed.

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