https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164492
--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #5) > Keyboard layout does not define directly directionality of a character > entered using it. 1. Not define completely, but define typically. 2. I didn't base my argument on the keyboard layout defining the direction. Although... maybe I need to give some more though to what the caret direction should reflect. Maybe it actually is a good idea for it to reflect the keyboard layout typical-direction. > Additionally, I do not see the direction-indicator as > "what *will* appear", but rather "what *already is* the direction in the > caret position". The caret is not covering a character, so there isn't a direction in the caret position - unless you mean the paragraph direction. But - we already have an indicator for the paragraph direction. What's useful about the cursor direction detection is that it can tell you position-specific things; or perhaps, keyboard-layout-dependent things - stuff that you don't see by looking at the paragraph itself. (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > > What matter is where, relative to the caret, the sequence of characters > > would extend to. > And that is exactly what we do. In some cases (as you've demonstrated with the screencast); and in some cases, we don't, as the reproduction instructions demonstrate. But this aside, I may need to rethink things a bit, as I've written Mike above. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
