Re: [emacs-bidi] status? news?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> > Given this design, I think that the problem with breaking lines in the
> > presence of explicit embedding controls should not exist.
> 
> I was talking about portablity. You recommended the use of explicit marks
> to ensure portablity. I told that many application will not support
> explicit marks, because they say it's hard to implement, and that will
> make the code not portable. You asked about what makes it hard. I told
> the difference.
> 
> I was not talking about it being hard or easy to add the support to
> Emacs.

Of course, I understand that.  I just took the opportunity to explain
how I think this all will work in Emacs.

However, note that any editor or browser whose display engine works 
similarly to Emacs's, will also be free from these problems.