Re: Buffer names with R2L characters

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> I don't think we should wait for such a feature and in the meantime
>> display "12>FEDCBA>" as buffer name.  I'd like to have a solution,
>> even if an interim one, for Emacs 24.1.
>
> Do you think this case will be common enough in practice to be worth
> worrying about in the short term?
>
> In my experience redundant buffer/file names are not very common for
> _arbitrary_ files.  Rather, they tend to occur with very specific
> names where the name is not chosen by the user, but rather is due to
> some external standard -- e.g. "Makefile", "*shell*", "README".

I have them quite often when comparing/merging versions of files.

-- 
David Kastrup