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From: Evan Aad <oddeveneven@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do the "bidi-paragraph-start-re" and "bidi-paragraph-separate-re" do?
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:03:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+-Lr-CjAKYg4p9nTXmaysMBNkmL9rd7h+Q9Eh2GAiocEprKZg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0yforx5.fsf@dataswamp.org>

Thanks. But what specifically do these lines accomplish?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:52 PM Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
> Evan Aad wrote:
>
> > I have annotated most of the customizations in my .emacs
> > file, but there are a few I haven't, and I no longer know
> > what they do. I'd like to run them by you, please.
> >
> > The first couple of mysterious customizations are the
> > following couple lines:
> >
> >   (setq-default bidi-paragraph-start-re "^")
> >   (setq-default bidi-paragraph-separate-re "^")
>
> It's for so-called bidirectional text, I suppose in practice
> Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, the way these guys write are just
> all over the place :)
>
> --
> underground experts united
> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-07 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-07  6:37 What do the "bidi-paragraph-start-re" and "bidi-paragraph-separate-re" do? Evan Aad
2022-11-07 12:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-07 13:03   ` Evan Aad [this message]
2022-11-07 13:12     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-07 13:57     ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-08  5:51       ` Evan Aad
2022-11-08  6:15         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-08  8:28         ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-08  9:21           ` Evan Aad
2022-11-08 10:44             ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-08 11:16               ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-08 12:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-08 22:51           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-11-09 11:02             ` Evan Aad
2022-11-09 13:16               ` Robert Pluim

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