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Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:20:24 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:33:49 +0200
>> 
>> Would it possibly, perhaps, make sense to switch off the bidi paragraph
>> detection stuff if (get major-mode 'mode-class) eq 'special?
>
> What do you mean by "switch off"? do you mean force paragraphs to be
> always left-to-right?
>
>> These modes aren't meant for editing (generally), so perhaps that
>> might solve some problems.
>
> It should be possible, but:
>
>  . To say something intelligent about this, I'd need someone "in the
>    know" to explain what `special-mode' really means.  I actually
>    thought about this a day or two ago, but was unable to make up my
>    mind due to lack of detailed documentation.  The ELisp manual says
>    this about these modes:
>
>     * If this mode is appropriate only for specially-prepared text, then
>       the major mode command symbol should have a property named
>       `mode-class' with value `special', put on as follows:
>
>          (put 'funny-mode 'mode-class 'special)
>
>       This tells Emacs that new buffers created while the current buffer
>       is in Funny mode should not inherit Funny mode, in case the
>       default value of `major-mode' is `nil'.  Modes such as Dired,
>       Rmail, and Buffer List use this feature.
>
>    Huh?  "New buffers created while the current buffer is in Funny
>    mode"?  "Should not inherit Funny mode"?  "In case the default
>    value is non-nil"?  I cannot make heads or tails out of this
>    description, and saying that a few modes use this feature really
>    doesn't help to understand it.

"Funny mode" is a place holder, something like $mode.

Anyway, the key point is "specially-prepared", meaning that the skeleton
of the text is provided by the mode itself.  Given that the standard
user interface of Emacs is English, left-to-right mode as a default
seems reasonable.  Should the specially prepared text be R2L (namely a
user interface _not_ in English, or customizable), the mode writer would
be aware of it.

-- 
David Kastrup




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