Re: [emacs-bidi] Display of continuation lines

[Omer Zak]

Let's consider the case of emacs being used by a programmer, who is
writing a software module, which displays mixed-language messages.
Such a programmer will have to edit strings like:
"the engine HALCHA FAIFAN"

If the string happens to be at right of line, and needs to be broken, then
it would be easier to follow it if it were displayed as "the engine NAFI\
AF AHCLAH" rather than as "the engine CLAH\
NAFIAF AH"

So for this case, I prefer the first form (which is easier on emacs).

The second form is relevant for situations in which people have to
limit line lengths anyway.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

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> Given a pure LTR text:
>
>     abcdefghijklm
>
> if the window line is too short to display all of it, it is displayed
> by the current Emacs code like this:
>
>     abcdefgh\
>     ijklm
>
> (Emacs 21 uses some special graphical glyph instead of the \, but the
> principle doesn't change.)
>
> The question is, given a bidirectional text:
>
>     abcdeABCDEFGH
>
> do we want it to be displayed like this:
>
>     abcdeHGF\
>     EDCBA
>
> or like this:
>
>     abcdeCBA\
>     HGFED

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                                             --- Omer
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