Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105429: New function `string-mark-left-to-right' for handling LRMs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:00:45 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> I don't think so, and anyway such a regex-search would still have to go
> >> through the functions of mule-cmds.el.
> >
> > Which ones?
> 
> get-char-code-property, presumably (unless you want to replicate all the
> char-code table logic in C).

That char-code already exists on the C level: how do you think bidi.c
knows the bidirectional properties of each character it encounters?

> > I was under the impression that Someone(TM) volunteered to write a
> > function that returns buffer names decorated with the directional
> > control characters to make them display reasonably.  But maybe I was
> > mistaken.
> 
> I can take a look.

Thanks.