Re: invisible

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>
> Date: 03 Mar 2004 13:16:35 +0900
> 
> > For that matter, why did you choose to put the point positions as
> > 
> > >  Z Y X 1 2 3 C B A
> > > 3 2 1 4 5 6 9 8 7 0
> > 
> > and not as
> > 
> > >  Z Y X 1 2 3 C B A
> > > 4 3 2 1 5 6 0 9 8 7
> 
> The display cursor conventionally sits on top of the character following
> the point position the cursor's located at

Sure, but in the bidi context, the term "following" becomes a bit
ambiguous.  The ``normal'' practice is to interpret it in the logical
order, not the visual order.  We could, of course, use a different
convention if it solves more problems than it creates, but any such
deviation from the logical order requires a good reason.

> Dragging to select Y - 2 selects Z even though the user probably didn't
> want it.
> 
> Gack...

Exactly.

FWIW, we have nothing to be ashamed of here: all GUI programs that
support bidirectional editing behave strangely at some point when you
select text that crosses directional boundaries.  We just need to be
no worse than the rest.