Re: bidi-display-reordering is now non-nil by default

[Štěpán Němec]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:37:30 +0200
Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>> +                (put-text-property (point)
>>> +                              (progn
>>> +                                (insert (bidi-string-mark-left-to-right 
>>> str))
>>> +                                (point))
>>> 'mouse-face 'highlight)
>
> The mouse-face property is used to delimit the text, but the above code
> ends up marking not just STR but STR+LRM, which is not desirable
> (e.g. choose-completion will end up choosing STR+LRM rather than jus
> STR).

OTOH, making choose-completion know better than relying on mouse-face
would also have the side-effect of providing more favourable conditions
for fixing bug#8897. ;-)

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