Re: [emacs-bidi] mirroring of glyphs

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Yair Friedman (Jerusalem) wrote:

> "Ehud Karni" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think the real solution is to work in some way like the good old
> > Einstein Writer (always a good reference).
> 
> Einstein, I still have it on one of my 5¼" diskettes....ooops.

I actually have it in full working order, on the hard disk.

> I think one intuitive way might be to supply the user a "change cursor
> direction" command and inserting LRM/RLM when this is done.

This will only work when typing new text, but not when you edit text that 
already existed.  In the latter case, a user will not naturally change 
the cursor direction, since she edits random locations, not a contiguous 
portion of text.  She might as well simply insert LRM/RLM directly.