Emacs & Hebrew

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> Long ago, On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 07:38:34AM +0200, Yuval Hager wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As I my Emacs usage increased recently following the discovery of the amazing
>> org-mode (highly recommended), I began wondering about Bidi in Emacs.
>
> The Bidi has landed!
>
> Quoting https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.24.1 :
>
> *** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
> Right-to-left (RTL) scripts, such as Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, are
> displayed in the correct visual order as expected by users of those
> scripts.  The display reordering is a "full bidirectionality" class
> implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA).  Buffers
> with no RTL text should look exactly the same as before.
>
> ...
>
> *** New Hebrew translation of the Emacs Tutorial.
> Type `C-u C-h t' to choose it in case your language setup doesn't
> automatically select it.
>
> Congrats!
>

Very nice. I use VIM but I will look at Emacs now. VIM is no good for
typing in Hebrew

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Dotan Cohen

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