Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: >> From: Ze'ev Clementson <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:17:09 -0700 >> >> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >> From: Ze'ev Clementson <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:35:28 -0700 >> >> >> >> It took me a little while to figure out how to turn on bidi and use it >> >> to input Hebrew in Emacs 24. It wasn't hard to figure it out, but it did >> >> require some investigative work. >> > >> > Did you find anything that is not already in the manual? >> >> Which manual? The emacs info files don't appear to have anything >> bidi-related in them (at least a search for "bidi" didn't turn up any >> hits). > > There's the "Bidirectional Editing" node in the Emacs User manual. > > How did you search for it? Typing "i bidi TAB" shows 3 possible > completions.
Nope, they don't show up in the aquamacs24 Emacs User manual. Were the bidi pages added to the manual sometime after mid-May (which is apparently when the last emacs24 refresh was applied to aquamacs24)? >> > There's no need to turn bidi-display-reordering on and off. You can >> > turn it on by default and leave it that way. Typing plain L2R Latin >> > text should look the same with bidi-display-reordering non-nil as it >> > was before Emacs 24 (barring bugs). I know a few people who actually >> > run Emacs 24 like that, even though they don't read any bidi script, >> > and I've heard no complaints from them for quite some time, so doing >> > that should be pretty safe. >> >> Oh, that's easy than. I thought there was some reason for not having it >> on by default. If so, why isn't bidi-display-reordering defaulted to t >> in the emacs24 code? > > Because I'm a coward ;-) There are a couple of cursor positioning > problem in some situations that I wanted to fix before doing so. haha - better safe than sorry! >> I assume it will be turned on by default when emacs24 is released? > > Long before the release. The head maintainers already asked me to do > that a month ago, in order to facilitate discovery of any remaining > bugs. Ok, thanks. - Ze'ev _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
