Re: Emacs as word processor / Text Properties

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jambunathan K <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:17:38 +0530
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > No, I'm saying more than that: inserting those control characters _is_
> > the Emacs way of tagging the paragraph as having a certain base
> > direction.  Since Emacs is mostly about plain-text files, there's no
> > other way to achieve that effect, while being sure that any other
> > random UBA-compliant application will obey that.
> 
> As a side note, what this means is that "importers" (HTML -> Text
> converters) like eww + shr MUST insert "extra" directional markers while
> dealing with directional tags.

No, they shouldn't.  That's not how Emacs works.  Instead, Emacs
should process the directional tags and DTRT.  This (i.e. display of
marked-up bidirectional text) is not yet supported, but OTOH no one
requested that yet.  (Well, actually, one person did, several years
ago, but I never heard from him since.)

Inserting into buffer text something that wasn't there to begin with
is asking for trouble: sooner or later that something will leak to the
disk, and users will rightfully complain that Emacs corrupts their
files.