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

[tomas]

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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 04:02:58PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote:

[...]
> OK, I want it to work like fill-paragraph, but I don't want to REALLY
> do fill-paragraph, because I don't want to modify the file AT ALL. 

[Eli Zaretskii]

> >        +----------------------------------------+
> >        |some latin text followed by HTIW HCAORP\|
> >        |PA SILE FO TLUSER LARUTANNU EHT DNA SNO\|
> >        |ITPO GNILLORCS TNEREFFID EHT FO GNITART\|
> >        |SNOMED ROF TXET GNOL 2YREV 1YREV WERBEH\|
> >        | small latin tail                       |
> >        +----------------------------------------+
> >
> > And yes, the R2L text reads bottom to top.  But rewriting the central
> > piece of the display engine to make this use-case look better is
> > beyond my resources [...]

[Ehud Karni]

> >From experience (with my visual Hebrew package) this is very annoying.
> Think of 3 very long (150, 270 and 150 characters) viewed on 80
> characters wide screen, It is very confusing to find the start of
> each line and to read upward 1 or 2 lines and go down again.

Again, at first blush you are right, Ehud. It would be annoying. On the
other hand, wrapping a long line is just a display glitch, and the
display proposed by Eli is just more consistent.

I think what you want is visual-line-mode, and yes, this one would have
to tackle this job in the presence of R2L (i don't dare to think too
closely about *that*, my head starts to spin agein :)

Regards
- -- tomás
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