Hi There, I am interested in writing bidirectional text in Vim. I realise, from previous discussions on the list, the it would be difficult to support the bidi standard in Vim. However, I was wondering if a more manual approach would be easier to implement. What I had in mind was to extend the syntax highlighting system, to allow specifying the direction of a syntax region. This would mean that the direction of a character is determined by its syntax group, so no implementation of the bidi algorithm is necessary. Of course, displaying a string in the correct direction is more complicated than highlighting with a given colour, but perhaps it is easy enough (I'm not familiar with the code).
If this can be done, I think it will solve most practical problems, since when editing latex, for example, text in different direction will appear in particular commands or environments. Thanks, Moshe -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
