Re: improving bidi documents display

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Another idea would be to allow a text property to override the character
>> type.
>
> Overlay, not text property.  The latter modifies the buffer, which is
> not what you want in this case.

Wouldn't this sort of property potentially affect lots of text in the
buffer?  Overlays are not a good choice for such a thing, and the
overlay interface is generally worse for things which really are text
properties, which these seem to be...

Text-properties could be used `with-silent-modifications' or some-such
to avoid buffer modification, as is usually done with fortification.

-Miles

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