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Diffstat (limited to 'etc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -1047,15 +1047,16 @@ of function value which looks like (closure ENV ARGS &rest BODY). declared as dynamically bound. +++ -** New function `string-mark-left-to-right'. +** New function `bidi-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. +returns another string which can be safely inserted into a buffer as a +distinct RTL "segment", without causing any following text to be +displayed as RTL. (This is done by appending a Unicode "left-to-right +mark" character.) 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. +paragraph direction and you need to insert a string whose contents and +directionality are not known in advance. ** pre/post-command-hook are not reset to nil upon error. Instead, the offending function is removed. |