Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:28:52 +0100
After a long time I have to use GNU emacs to write some hebrew text
(most likely including nikud).
- I am currently trying out the stable emacs 21.4 version
(shipped with Debian unstable). That version has no R2L
support as far as I can see. Which version has, a snapshot
version.
Sorry, there's still no support for bidi editing in any version of
Emacs, not even in the CVS.
Sure there is! Well, sort of. Emacs correctly shapes Arabic *words*
(including diacritics) RTL, but sentences run LTR. Sometimes you have
to C-l to get it to redraw the shapes. It works surprisingly well for
many browse/edit tasks; it's not that hard to get used to reading Arabic
that way. The advantage is of course that you can use all the standard
Emacs functionality on Arabic text. I dunno if it would work this way
for Hebrew.
I use emacs (v 22.0.50.2, also one of the 21.3 versions) all the time
for editing (not composing, except for short bits) Arabic plaintext. I
had to create an Arabic Quail package to get an Arabic keyboard layout, e.g.
(require 'quail)
(quail-define-package
"arabic-ar-AR" "arabic-ar-AR" "aar<"
t
"arabic-ar character input method with Arabic keyboard layout
Doubling the postfix separates the letter and postfix: e.g. a'' -> a'
" nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
(quail-define-rules
("f" ?ب) ;; baa
("j" ?ت) ;; taa
("e" ?ث) ;; thaa
etc.
)
BTW, you know that Vim supports RTL? But without bidi reordering.
Hope that helps,
gregg
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