@♪ Octavia con Amore ♬ @Soft Dragon :verified_dragon:✨ the reason they're like this is because they stand for the functions forward-char, backward-char, next-line, and previous-line. Within text in an RTL script like Arabic, C-f moves visually left and C-b moves visually right.
It shouldn't be too hard to check the writing direction of the text underneath point and reverse the arrow key mapping accordingly, but I'm not sure how you'd handle the boundaries between different writing directions.
@keith Oh gods, that's a nightmare. I'm glad that, as much as Japanese is traditionally a right-to-left language, it's also common to have it left-to-right and well-adapted to being written that way digitally.
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in reply to ♪ Octavia con Amore ♬ •@♪ Octavia con Amore ♬ @Soft Dragon :verified_dragon:✨ Yeah, you can also just bind them to the arrow keys (which IIRC Emacs does by default, and is what I use), but it produces behaviour like this:
It shouldn't be too hard to check the writing direction of the text underneath point and reverse the arrow key mapping accordingly, but I'm not sure how you'd handle the boundaries between different writing directions.
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