Re: Bidirectional text and URLs

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > That's not what Richard wanted, AFAIU.  He wanted a way of citing a
  > chunk of text in a mail message,

Actually, the message I am thinking about are not email.

I am thinking about messages to display (in an Emacs temp buffer)
to give information to the user, or query the user.
We may want to include a pertinent part of the buffer into the message,
and we should make sure it gets bidi-formatted the same way in the message
that it does in its original context.

The text to copy from the buffer might be a URL, or anything.  This
facility would be general, but we might want to use it as part of
handling strange URLs.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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