Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r105429: New function `string-mark-left-to-right' for handling LRMs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:47:00 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Btw, is there a way to regex-search for a character by its bidi
> > category?  That would make the code more elegant, and probably quite
> > faster as well.
> 
> I don't think so, and anyway such a regex-search would still have to go
> through the functions of mule-cmds.el.

Which ones?

>  A better optimization might be to provide the equivalents of
> `next-property-change' etc. for char code properties.

That's almost trivial, but we are in feature freeze, right?

> >> then the buffer is displayed as 1>[some Arabic text]>, both in the
> >> mode-line and in the buffer menu.
> >
> > I didn't mean the display of the buffer name itself; that is a
> > separate issue, as discussed here:
> 
> Was there any resolution on that thread?

I was under the impression that Someone(TM) volunteered to write a
function that returns buffer names decorated with the directional
control characters to make them display reasonably.  But maybe I was
mistaken.