On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 3:28 PM Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > You can have what you call the "explicit mode" if you set the variable > bidi-display-reordering to nil.
So, if someone is running a mixture of applications requiring implicit vs. explicit modes, they'll have to continuously toggle the setting of their terminal back and forth. Just as for Konsole and friends there's a graphical setting, correspondingly for Emacs's terminal there's this bidi-display-reordering setting. Now, I, as a user, want BiDi to work as seamlessly as possible, definitely without me having to repeatedly switch a setting back and forth if the applications could just as well do it automatically. One of the basics of my spec. Whether Emacs will adopt this, or will keep requiring users to toggle this setting back and forth depending on the particular app they wish to run, is not my call. cheers, egmont