Re: Bidirectional editing in Emacs -- main design decisions

[Stefan Monnier]

> Well, that's my fault: "stop reordering" is simply misleading.

> What I meant by that was that the reordering will completely process
> all the text before (in the logical order) the part covered by a
> display property, then process the display spec, and only then reorder
> the text after the property.

> So this buffer text

>   ABCDE display XYZ

> will be reordered as

>   EDCBA display ZYX

> instead of more sensible

>   ZYX display EDCBA

> under the new plan.

Thanks.  That makes sense,


        Stefan