On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 19:00:38 -0500
> > From: Gregg Reynolds <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
> >
> > > Basically, you just set bidi-display-reordering to a non-nil value,
> > > either on a per-buffer basis, or everywhere (with setq-default), and
> > > that's it.
> > >
> > > Doesn't seem to be an option.  I do M-x set-variable, and the only bidi
> var
> > is "bidi-paragraph-direction".
>
> It's not a user-level option.  Set it like this:
>
>  M-: (setq bidi-display-reordering t) RET
>
> Aha, that's better.


> > > Try "C-h H" first: bidi-display-reordering is set automatically in
> > > that buffer, so you should be able to see the Arabic greeting
> > > reordered correctly (assuming you have the font installed).
> > >
> >
> > No bidi.  I can see the Arabic chars, but they are left-to-right.  I
> checked
> > and bidi-display-reordering is t.  But the Hebrew seems to be RTL.
>
>
??? If you move the cursor through the Arabic characters, doesn't it
> move right to left?  I definitely see the order of the characters
> change when I toggle bidi-display-reordering on and off.
>
> Ok, using the "Middle/Near East" line near the top of the display, C-f
seems to work properly; after the space following the colon it jumps to the
right-most Hebrew char, after which C-f steps to the left.

The problem is that the char display of the Arabic is still left-to-right.
 That is, C-f steps through the run RTL, but the reading order is still LTR
 (i.e. like this:   ALSLAM @LYLM; it should be MLY@ MALSLA)


> > This is running emacs -nw on OS X 10.5.8, after running bzr merge.
>
> What "bzr merge"?  Are you using the current trunk or something else?
>
> bazaar command?  If memory serves, I followed the instructions at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=emacs.  I'm not familiar with bazaar so
"bzr merge" was my best guess as to how to pull in the latest changes;
seemed to work, is there a better way?

>
> M-x report-emacs-bug RET, but please before that ask on emacs-devel,
> perhaps some other OS X users can help you.  I don't see any of these
> problems.
>

I'm thinking more along the lines of a place to keep notes, comments, etc.
organized  - stuff that may or may not be a bug, that may or may not merit
documentation, etc.  Stuff tends to get lost in mailing lists.  Actually, I
have a wiki so maybe the thing to do is keep my notes there and submit items
to this list as needed.  See http://wiki.sibawayhi.org/ (and please take the
rhetorical outbursts with a grain of salt ;).

Thanks

-Gregg
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