[emacs-bidi] Re: Getting started with Emacs BiDi

[Ze'ev Clementson]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Ze'ev Clementson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:17:09 -0700
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> >> From: Ze'ev Clementson <address@hidden>
>> >> 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