Re: Bidirectional text and URLs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >   > We already have a better solution for that, I just added yesterday the
  > >   > infrastructure that enables such a solution.
  > > 
  > > Could you tell me what that solution is?  I'm concerned that we
  > > may be miscommunicating again.

  > I meant this primitive:

  >   (bidi-find-overridden-directionality FROM TO &optional OBJECT)

  >   Return position between FROM and TO where directionality was overridden.

This looks like a way to _test_ part of a buffer or string to see if
it has any bidi strangeness.  Could you confirm?

If so, the questionis: once you detect the strangeness, what then?
I suppose the next step is either an error message or a query.
In either case, I think we should show the user (1) what the text
looks like and (2) what's actually in it.

With your implementation of context-regeneration, we can show what
the text looks like.

How can we show what it really is?

Perhaps what we want is a suppress-bidi property, or a bidi property
that would specify the direction for certain text.  These properties
would override all bidi attributes of the characters themselves.


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