On 18 May 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

>
> OK, finally something constructive...
>
> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > In the linux console you should use the keymap "il-8859_8" (not sure about
> > the name, this is the name from Mandrake 8.1, I an still see there a
> > bogus "hebrew" keymap.)
>
> You are out of luck though if there are no Hebrew markings on the
> keys! I hope no one will suggest that chiseling them by hand is an
> acceptable solution (on a company laptop?)

I actually worked for quite a long time on an X terminal with a keyboard
that has no Hebrew markings on it. Who needs that? ;-)

>
> > Except in composing, with some configuration work you can probably
> > configure your environment to read Hebrew in a text-mode mail client.
> > Composing may be a bit more tricky, waiting for follow-ups here.
>
> And I believe this is one of the experts speaking...

vim is quite fine for me.

If you want to take the (gnu)emacs route, I sugegst you give Eli Zaretskii
a hand with bidi emacs.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir



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