Re: Unicode confusables and reordering characters considered harmful

[Gregory Heytings]

> > +   '(("\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING}\\|\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING}\\|\
> > +\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE}\\|\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE}\\|\
> > +\N{LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE}\\|\N{RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE}\\|\
> > +\N{FIRST STRONG ISOLATE}\\|\N{POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING}\\|\
> > +\N{POP DIRECTIONAL ISOLATE}" . (0 'font-lock-warning-face t)))))
>
> A [...] would be a lot more efficient than this "...\\|...\\|...\\|...".
>
> > +(defun bidi-reordering-character-toggle-visibility ()
> > +  "Toggle the visibility of bidi reordering characters."
> > +  (interactive)
> > +  (setq bidi-reordering-characters-visible
> > +        (not bidi-reordering-characters-visible))
>
> Aka
>
>    (define-minor-mode bidi-reordering-characters-visible
>      "Make the bidi reordering characters visible."
>      :global t
>      ...)
>    (define-obsolete-function-alias
>      'bidi-reordering-character-toggle-visibility
>      #'bidi-reordering-characters-visible "...")

Thanks for your comments!  Indeed and indeed.  I did not spend enough time 
tweaking that code, given that Eli already said he doesn't want it.