This seems pretty cool, although admittedly I know very little of it. It's shocking how poorly supported right-to-left languages are supported, and I hope this goes someway of addressing that.
This seems pretty cool, although admittedly I know very little of it. It's shocking how poorly supported right-to-left languages are supported, and I hope this goes someway of addressing that.
I think this is great news! I can write pages full of angsty rage about how terrible it is to use RTL languages in text editors - especially when switching from RTL to LTR inline.
I think this is great news! I can write pages full of angsty rage about how terrible it is to use RTL languages in text editors - especially when switching from RTL to LTR inline.
FWIW Emacs did have bidi support, tho I did not really use it to any extent apart from copy pasting some stuff so I can not really evaluate it. One thing I always hate with bidi is that when...
FWIW Emacs did have bidi support, tho I did not really use it to any extent apart from copy pasting some stuff so I can not really evaluate it.
One thing I always hate with bidi is that when moving the cursor into a RTL passage, all the directions of movement is inverted, and that causes a lot of disorientation for me. But maybe that's because I'm not used to it.
Doing proper bidi support is hard, especially when switching direction inline. There are many iterations of bidi support that make usage clumsy, annoying and unreadable < למשל for example זה This...
Doing proper bidi support is hard, especially when switching direction inline. There are many iterations of bidi support that make usage clumsy, annoying and unreadable
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This seems pretty cool, although admittedly I know very little of it. It's shocking how poorly supported right-to-left languages are supported, and I hope this goes someway of addressing that.
I think this is great news! I can write pages full of angsty rage about how terrible it is to use RTL languages in text editors - especially when switching from RTL to LTR inline.
FWIW Emacs did have bidi support, tho I did not really use it to any extent apart from copy pasting some stuff so I can not really evaluate it.
One thing I always hate with bidi is that when moving the cursor into a RTL passage, all the directions of movement is inverted, and that causes a lot of disorientation for me. But maybe that's because I'm not used to it.
Doing proper bidi support is hard, especially when switching direction inline. There are many iterations of bidi support that make usage clumsy, annoying and unreadable
< למשל for example זה
This should be a right aligned quoted comment starting with the word למשל