Re: `C-b' is backward-char, `left' is left-char - why?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:29:04 -0700
> From: PJ Weisberg <address@hidden>
> 
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:35:32 -0700
> >> From: PJ Weisberg <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> On Thursday, June 2, 2011, Andy Moreton <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> > the current position, depending on the bidirectional context.
> >>
> >> A user familiar with only left-to-right languages might not know what
> >> "bidirectional context" refers to here.
> >
> > Right.  Suggestions are welcome for how to say that less vaguely, but
> > without spilling the entire UAX#9 into the doc string ;-)
> 
> Something like "...depending on the natural direction of text around
> the cursor.  See UAX#9 regarding the display of text in languages that
> read right-to-left."

Hm... "natural direction" is hardly clear.  How about "reading
direction" instead?

Anyway, this is from the doc string of right-char, and we didn't yet
figure out how to rephrase its main part.  When we do, we can revisit
this particular aspect.

Thanks.