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Diffstat (limited to 'etc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1038,11 +1038,15 @@ of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). *** New function `special-variable-p' to check whether a variable is declared as dynamically bound. -** New function `string-mark-left-to-right' appends a Unicode LRM -(left-to-right mark) character to a string if it terminates in -right-to-left script. This is useful when the buffer has overall -left-to-right paragraph direction and you need to insert a string -whose contents (and directionality) are not known in advance. +** New function `string-mark-left-to-right'. +Given a string containing right-to-left (RTL) script, this function +returns another string with a terminating LRM (left-to-right mark) +character. If this string is inserted into a buffer, Emacs treats the +LRM as the end of an RTL segment and displays following text as LTR. + +This is useful when the buffer has overall left-to-right (LTR) +paragraph direction and you need to insert a string whose contents +(and hence directionality) are not known in advance. ** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error. Instead, the offending function is removed. |