Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers

Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:50:46 +0300

To: David Edmondson, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Teemu Likonen

* 2020-08-05 12:40:06+03, Teemu Likonen wrote:

> I think there are two options:
>
>  1. Add a string like "From: " in the beginning of notmuch-show header
>     paragraph so that the paragraph always starts with left-to-right
>     characters (those latin letters "From").
>
>  2. Add invisible characters that force left-to-right text for the
>     paragraph. Character U+200E LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK is meant for
>     controlling exactly that.

 3. Bad option: (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right) for the
    whole notmuch-show buffer. This is not good idea because also the
    message body is forced to left-to-right direction (even if it
    contained right-to-left text).

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    • Teemu Likonen—[PATCH v2] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, signed, unread]
      • Teemu Likonen—[PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
        • David Edmondson—Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
          • Teemu Likonen—Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, signed, unread]
            • Teemu Likonen—Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, signed, unread]
            • David Edmondson—Re: [PATCH v3] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
              • Teemu Likonen—[PATCH v4] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, notmuch::moreinfo, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
                • David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v4] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
                  • Teemu Likonen—Re: [PATCH v4] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, signed, unread]
                    • Teemu Likonen—Re: [PATCH v4] Emacs: Force left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, signed, unread]
                    • Teemu Likonen—[PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::pushed, unread]
                      • David Edmondson—Re: [PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
                      • David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
                      • T‮omi Ollila—Re: [PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
                        • David Edmondson—Re: [PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, unread]
                        • Teemu Likonen—Re: [PATCH v5] Emacs: Ensure left-to-right display for message headers [inbox, signed, unread]
                          • Teemu Likonen—Sanitize bidi control chars [inbox, signed, unread]