Re: C-d deleting region considered harmful

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:40:12 -0700
>> Cc: 
>> 
>> The cursor is a graphic indication of the text insertion position, aka point.
>> The position is unambiguous, no matter how the cursor might indicate that
>> position.
>
> Of course, this nice theory completely breaks down with bidirectional
> text, at the directionality change boundaries.

Well, when we are typing linearly, we don't want the block cursor to be
on the character we just typed, but ahead.

I just did C-h h C-x C-q, went into the Hebrew text and typed a few
characters (like x or ( ) since ( ) are not strictly L-R).

I got seasick.

-- 
David Kastrup