bug#9219: 24.0.50; bidi switches to R-to-L when I don't want it to

[Florian Beck]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:


>> Say I have a paragraph displayed as
>> 
>>                    |A blah blah
>> 
>> Now I insert the left-to-right mark. This results in:
>> 
>> AM blah blah
>
> Sorry, I don't understand the recipe.  Without the LRM, that paragraph
> should have been displayed flushed to the right margin, like this:
>
>                                                              bla bla A
>
> Is that your original display?

Yes, sorry.

> If so, where's the cursor when you
> insert the LRM: to the left of A or to the right?

Admittedly to the right, because I use `beginning-of-visual-line' to
get to what I interpret as the beginning of the paragraph. So its

                    blah blah A|

and I get

A|M blah blah

I'd expect the marker to come first.


-- 
Florian Beck