On 04/07/09 21:59, J.A.J. Pater wrote: > Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > I think l should be understood as "next" and h as "previous" > Your right when you understand it that way! > But it is still counter intuitive > > > > Indeed, when hand-copying such a sentence, you'll write JHVH ------------------^^^^ > (Jod-Heh-Vav-Heh) and ALLH > > (Alif-Lam-Lam-Heh) from right to left even though it means first > > skipping the necessary space (and estimating how large it will have to > > be), and similarly you'll skip rightwards from the second Heh of JHVH > > and later from the Heh of ALLH, over the just-handwritten RTL word, to > > where you'll be writing the next LTR word in the sentence. > This is not the case when e.g. using mlterm+vim with 'termbidi'. > No need to skip any necessary spaces at all! > The LTR RTL switching is done automatically with the switching of the > keyboard. > So I simply type: > > the name of god is written JHVH in hebrew and ALLH in arabic. > > and I get: > > the name of god is written HVHJ in hebrew and HLLA in arabic. > > (where HVHJ and HLLA would be hebrew and arabic letters of course...)
by "_hand_-copying" I meant "with pen and paper", not "by typing". > > > As long as true-bidi consoles are a rarity, there is no urgency for a > > true-bidi gvim, but I suppose that some years from now, all console > > terminals will behave like mlterm, and by then there could be some > > demand for a true-bidi gvim. I expect that true-bidi gvim and true-bidi > > Console vim will behave the same way, but I suppose that that is still > > several years in the future. > > Well, I can work with the tips given or (which I think I prefer) mlterm > and/or ViGedit for so long. > > Adriaan. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 63. You start using smileys in your snail mail. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
