Hello,

Sorry for late reply and also taking your time on this,

Tony:
I added the configuration as you mentioned. After that when I typed Persian 
everything got typed as question marks and still as before every character I 
typed resulted in more than one character. So I still prefer to have the 
feature ‘arabic’ and ‘persian’ off. Sorry but thanks!

Bram:
Maybe I didn't understand you question correctly? I cloned the vim from GitHub 
and without any changes to the source if I build it using the ‘huge’ feature, 
it includes +arabic and +farsi. Even if I use homebrew to install it I get 
those features. According to this 
<http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/vimfeat.html> vim includes ‘farsi' and 
‘arabic' in the ‘huge' features. I don’t explicitly add ‘arabic’ nor ‘farsi’ 
since I don’t know how it’s done without changing the feature and config file 
in the src. I hope this answered the question.

Here is the output from my vim —version installed using Homebrew without any 
options, just by using 'brew install vim':

VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Nov 24 2018 19:13:03)
macOS version
Included patches: 1-500
Compiled by Homebrew
Huge version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl               +extra_search      +mouse_netterm     +tag_old_static
+arabic            +farsi             +mouse_sgr         -tag_any_white
+autocmd           +file_in_path      -mouse_sysmouse    -tcl
+autochdir         +find_in_path      +mouse_urxvt       +termguicolors
-autoservername    +float             +mouse_xterm       +terminal
-balloon_eval      +folding           +multi_byte        +terminfo
+balloon_eval_term -footer            +multi_lang        +termresponse
-browse            +fork()            -mzscheme          +textobjects
++builtin_terms    +gettext           +netbeans_intg     +timers
+byte_offset       -hangul_input      +num64             +title
+channel           +iconv             +packages          -toolbar
+cindent           +insert_expand     +path_extra        +user_commands
-clientserver      +job               +perl              +vartabs
+clipboard         +jumplist          +persistent_undo   +vertsplit
+cmdline_compl     +keymap            +postscript        +virtualedit
+cmdline_hist      +lambda            +printer           +visual
+cmdline_info      +langmap           +profile           +visualextra
+comments          +libcall           -python            +viminfo
+conceal           +linebreak         +python3           +vreplace
+cryptv            +lispindent        +quickfix          +wildignore
+cscope            +listcmds          +reltime           +wildmenu
+cursorbind        +localmap          +rightleft         +windows
+cursorshape       +lua               +ruby              +writebackup
+dialog_con        +menu              +scrollbind        -X11
+diff              +mksession         +signs             -xfontset
+digraphs          +modify_fname      +smartindent       -xim
-dnd               +mouse             +startuptime       -xpm
-ebcdic            -mouseshape        +statusline        -xsmp
+emacs_tags        +mouse_dec         -sun_workshop      -xterm_clipboard
+eval              -mouse_gpm         +syntax            -xterm_save
+ex_extra          -mouse_jsbterm     +tag_binary        
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
       defaults file: "$VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: clang -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -DMACOS_X -DMACOS_X_DARWIN  
-g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1       
Linking: clang   -L. -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib 
-L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib 
-L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib  -L/usr/local/lib -o vim        -lncurses -liconv 
-lintl -framework AppKit  -L/usr/local/opt/lua/lib -llua5.3 
-mmacosx-version-min=10.13 -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib  
-L/usr/local/Cellar/perl/5.28.0/lib/perl5/5.28.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE
 -lperl -lm -lutil -lc  
-L/usr/local/opt/python/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/lib/python3.7/config-3.7m-darwin
 -lpython3.7m -framework CoreFoundation  -lruby.2.5.3 -lobjc    


I have to say the reason I chose vim is its performance and extensibility plus 
ability to type RTL without hassle which is extremely rare. So I was very 
excited to see that RTL works in the OSX terminal out of the box.

Best,
Bahman
> On 30 Nov 2018, at 01:00, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:31 PM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> You are missing something.  You can build Vim with the Arabic and/or
>> Farsi feature, but so long as you don't set the 'arabic' or 'fkmap'
>> options then nothing should be different.  You haven't answered the
>> question why anything changes without setting those options.  I always
>> build with huge features and don't get any Arabic stuff because it's not
>> enabled by the option.
> 
> IIUC, the OP's problem is that mixed RTL and LTR text is not displayed
> in full-bidi in Vim (which is a known limitation, but he regards it as
> a major bug) but that the Mac native terminal, which calls itself
> xterm-256color and not mlterm, displays full-bidi even in Vim, with
> correct shaping of Arabic letters, provided that Vim is compiled with
> -arabic. (I don't know how it does that, but I'm not on a Mac myself.)
> "set termbidi" (which requires +arabic) apparently corrupts the
> display, as shown in one of his posts earlier in this thread.
> 
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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