Emacs & Hebrew

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: w1 at zak.co.il (Omer Zak)
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:11:51 +0300
> 
> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 18:56 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Emacs & Hebrew":
> > > The Bidi has landed!
> > > 
> > > Quoting https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/NEWS.24.1 :
> > 
> > Do you know if there's an option to NOT do Bidi, and just show
> > everything left-to-right as previously?
> 
> +1
> 
> It is a very important option.  Sometimes I open a mixed language file
> in Emacs just to see the logical order of glyphs in a segment which is
> visually messed up.
> 
> Will Emacs 24.1 rob me of this use case?

You know, it is quite ironic that, having heard about a major Free
Software project which now fully supports bidirectional scripts
including Hebrew, the first thing people here ask is how to disable
that feature.  Not whether it works, not if it's any good, not how
well it supports this or that aspect of bidirectional editing -- but
how to turn it off.  A sobering experience, I must say.

I sincerely hope that from now on people here will speak much more
about bidi on emacs-devel at gnu.org, reporting bugs, asking for
features, contributing code, etc.  This cannot be one-man's war like
it was until now -- that is, if we want Hebrew support in Emacs to be
not just good, but exceptional.

Enjoy Emacs 24.