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bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please |
Date: |
Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:13:03 -0700 |
> > 1. That's not very user-friendly. We should have a user option that
> > does this, i.e., gives users an easy way to disable this
> > feature if they don't want to use it.
>
> Why would we need an option for that other than for debugging
> purposes?
Uh, to give "users an easy way to disable this feature if they don't want to use
it."
Can you imagine that there are some Emacs users who do not _ever_ need or want
to edit bidirectional text? Just like there are some users who never need or
want to use SQL code editing features, or image-library features, or Emacs-based
mail, or...
Why make such users figure out that they need to put a `setq-default' in their
.emacs to get back (as much as possible) the traditional behavior (and
possibly/hopefully eliminate some of the bidi overhead)?
I understand that it is apparently hard to make bidi support entirely optional,
e.g., remove all of the overhead even if turned off. But it has also been
advised that _if_ you want to turn bidi editing off, setting this variable to
nil is the way to do it.
So make it a user option. Only those users who want to turn it off will turn it
off - what's the problem? Why not give users that control and ease of control?
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Drew Adams, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/22
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Richard Stallman, 2011/09/23
- bug#9571: 24.0.50; user option to turn off bidi, please, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/23