Re: [emacs-bidi] Mixed L2R and R2L paragraphs and horizontal scroll

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>> What you describe here is the Emacs screen as rectangle frame moving
>>> over the visual ordered text.
>
>>     For truncation and continuation, yes.  For horizontal scrolling, no:
>>     it works in the logical order.  That is, scroll-left moves text in
>>     each line towards its respective margin: left margin for L2R lines,
>>     right margin for R2L.  More about this near the end of this message.
>
>> Please don't do that.  It is counterintuitive, and contradicts the
>> idea of scrolling left and right.  When we have a horizontal scroll
>> bar, that behavior will make no sense at all.
>
> I agree that "inverted scrolling" will lead to surprising scrolling
> behavior and "rigid scrolling" would lead to something more logical (at
> least to my mind).  But I think it's "OK for now".

Please note also that the keybindings C-x < and C-x > use mnemonics
based on graphical direction.

-- 
David Kastrup