Re: Bidirectional text and URLs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > It seems pretty clear that stuff like

  >      http://myspace.com/#/segami/moc.koobecaf//:sptth

This is the first time I've observe RTL display in Emacs.  I don't see
any way to detect the magic character that specifies it.  (I am using
a terminal as usual.)

I think we need to provide a way to make them visible.
Perhaps it should even be the default.

Also, is there a way to disable bidi in the current buffer?
If not, I think we need one.

  > But currently Emacs doesn't really have a mechanism for querying the
  > directionality of a buffer region, I think?

I think we need to add this.

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