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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:35:12 +0200
> 
> lllllRRRRRRlllll
>      ^

Is this the visual order (on the screen) or the logical order (in the
buffer)?

> If I move left, I jump backward over the RL text to the end of the LR
> text.  If I move right, I move 1 character backward in the RL text.

IIUC the example, the first sentence is true, the second is false.

> Now that is what I would expect to happen.  However, not the _current_
> direction decides whether to reverse left/right movement, but the
> _paragraph_ direction.

What do you mean by the "current direction"?

> If this is a LR paragraph (like it likely is), left will move right
> in the RRRRRR section and vice versa.

True.

> This is what Hebrew writers expect?

Yes.