From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi support? (Hebrew) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:39:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83txkrmvkm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vc57hfyc.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371822071 16243 80.91.229.3 (21 Jun 2013 13:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 21 15:41:13 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq1aS-0006uQ-QF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:41:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq1aS-0007Vb-FE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq1aK-0007VN-DF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq1aJ-0002Vz-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:51068) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq1aJ-0002Vk-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MOQ00300WD5CA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:39:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MOQ002V4WM5HUD0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:39:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87vc57hfyc.fsf@gilgamesch.quim.ucm.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160827 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:16:11 +0200 > > I just wanted to try out the bidi support in GNU emacs 24.3 > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Bidirectional-Editing.html That's a good start ;-) > However when I start GNU emacs and make > > C-h a > bidi > > No match is found (so no bidi-display-reordering etc) bidi-display-reordering exists, but is not a user option, which is why "C-h a" will not show it. But "M-x apropos-variable RET bidi RET" should show a couple of hits, and "M-x apropos RET bidi RET" will show even more. > Also in the Mule environment I cannot find anything indicating how to > switch to r2l. > > What do I miss? The support you are looking for is turned on by default. Just start typing, and you will see it (there's a slew of hebrew-* input methods for you to choose from, if you don't have a Hebrew keyboard).