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-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/emacs/mule.texi2
-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--doc/lispref/display.texi2
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS7
-rw-r--r--src/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--src/buffer.c4
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
index e10b9a83a4..794771e24d 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/emacs/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-07-28 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
+
+ * mule.texi (Bidirectional Editing): Document the fact that
+ bidi-display-reordering is t by default.
+
2011-07-15 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email protected]>
* help.texi (Misc Help): Mention `describe-prefix-bindings'
diff --git a/doc/emacs/mule.texi b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
index 3c970ecb12..4f1683ef5e 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/mule.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/mule.texi
@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ Annex #9, for reordering of bidirectional text for display.
whether text in the buffer is reordered for display. If its value is
non-@code{nil}, Emacs reorders characters that have right-to-left
directionality when they are displayed. The default value is
-@code{nil}.
+@code{t}.
Each paragraph of bidirectional text can have its own @dfn{base
direction}, either right-to-left or left-to-right. (Paragraph
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
index d59bbf87bc..f08ee3a227 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-07-28 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
+
+ * display.texi (Bidirectional Display): Document the fact that
+ bidi-display-reordering is t by default.
+
2011-07-23 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
* display.texi (Bidirectional Display): New section.
diff --git a/doc/lispref/display.texi b/doc/lispref/display.texi
index 903232bcbd..077d099223 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/display.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/display.texi
@@ -6007,7 +6007,7 @@ a ``Full bidirectionality'' class implementation of the @acronym{UBA}.
whether text in the buffer is reordered for display. If its value is
non-@code{nil}, Emacs reorders characters that have right-to-left
directionality when they are displayed. The default value is
-@code{nil}. Text in overlay strings (@pxref{Overlay
+@code{t}. Text in overlay strings (@pxref{Overlay
Properties,,before-string}), display strings (@pxref{Overlay
Properties,,display}), and @code{display} text properties
(@pxref{Display Property}) is also reordered if the buffer whose text
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index ffce9da51e..7b5d81b613 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
additional documentation.
-To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
-`bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil.
+To turn this off in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
+`bidi-display-reordering' to a nil value. The default is t. For text
+that includes no right-to-left characters, the result of reordering
+looks exactly as it did in previous versions, i.e. there's no
+reordering at all.
The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction
diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index eef9cede56..8c24a1f474 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-07-28 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
+
+ * buffer.c (init_buffer_once, syms_of_buffer): Set
+ bidi-display-reordering to t by default.
+
2011-07-28 Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
* alloc.c (memory_full) [!SYNC_INPUT]: Fix signal-related race.
diff --git a/src/buffer.c b/src/buffer.c
index a40275db8d..79800490fd 100644
--- a/src/buffer.c
+++ b/src/buffer.c
@@ -4926,7 +4926,7 @@ init_buffer_once (void)
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, truncate_lines) = Qnil;
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, word_wrap) = Qnil;
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, ctl_arrow) = Qt;
- BVAR (&buffer_defaults, bidi_display_reordering) = Qnil;
+ BVAR (&buffer_defaults, bidi_display_reordering) = Qt;
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, bidi_paragraph_direction) = Qnil;
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, cursor_type) = Qt;
BVAR (&buffer_defaults, extra_line_spacing) = Qnil;
@@ -5500,7 +5500,7 @@ The variable `coding-system-for-write', if non-nil, overrides this variable.
This variable is never applied to a way of decoding a file while reading it. */);
DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("bidi-display-reordering",
- &BVAR (current_buffer, bidi_display_reordering), Qnil,
+ &BVAR (current_buffer, bidi_display_reordering), Qt,
doc: /* Non-nil means reorder bidirectional text for display in the visual order. */);
DEFVAR_PER_BUFFER ("bidi-paragraph-direction",