> From: Ze'ev Clementson <beresh...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:17:09 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> From: Ze'ev Clementson <beresh...@gmail.com> > >> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:35:28 -0700 > >> > >> It took me a little while to figure out how to turn on bidi and use it > >> to input Hebrew in Emacs 24. It wasn't hard to figure it out, but it did > >> require some investigative work. > > > > Did you find anything that is not already in the manual? > > Which manual? The emacs info files don't appear to have anything > bidi-related in them (at least a search for "bidi" didn't turn up any > hits).
There's the "Bidirectional Editing" node in the Emacs User manual. How did you search for it? Typing "i bidi TAB" shows 3 possible completions. > > There's no need to turn bidi-display-reordering on and off. You can > > turn it on by default and leave it that way. Typing plain L2R Latin > > text should look the same with bidi-display-reordering non-nil as it > > was before Emacs 24 (barring bugs). I know a few people who actually > > run Emacs 24 like that, even though they don't read any bidi script, > > and I've heard no complaints from them for quite some time, so doing > > that should be pretty safe. > > Oh, that's easy than. I thought there was some reason for not having it > on by default. If so, why isn't bidi-display-reordering defaulted to t > in the emacs24 code? Because I'm a coward ;-) There are a couple of cursor positioning problem in some situations that I wanted to fix before doing so. > I assume it will be turned on by default when emacs24 is released? Long before the release. The head maintainers already asked me to do that a month ago, in order to facilitate discovery of any remaining bugs. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list emacs-bidi@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
