Re: Thank you Eli for your work on bidi!
Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:37:55 +0300
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> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:03:53 +0300 > From: Yair F <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> wrote: > > . Reveal formatting codes and bidi-specific peculiarities: do we need > > a mode that makes RLM, LRM, RLE, LRO, PDF, etc. visible? What > > about displaying the resolved bidi level of each character? > > I intend to expand whitespace.el to show these as well as other > Unicode controls such as ZWJ, CGJ etc. Thanks. > > . Do we need a convenient method of inserting directional formatting > > codes? Currently, unless you remember the Unicode codepoint by > > heart, the only way is "C-x 8 RET RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE RET" etc. > > > I believe this is covered by the input methods I posted. Do we need > anything beyond that? Forgive me my faulty memory. What's the status with including those input methods in Emacs, btw? Is there any reason not to add them now?