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: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 07:51:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+-Lr-CpQ7jGZA3qCdS=MD4Z410Gj9f6YJHAcyGcjv2x++hKDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d06j29h.fsf@gmail.com>
Thanks, Robert. Why would I probably want to turn on
'visual-line-mode'? What does this mode do?
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:58 PM Robert Pluim wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:03:45 +0200, Evan Aad said:
>
> Evan> Thanks. But what specifically do these lines accomplish?
>
> It means that
>
> ---------
> line1
> line2
> line3
> ---------
> is treated as 3 separate paragraphs by the bidi code. With the default
> values, youʼd have to write
>
> ---------
> line1
>
> line2
>
> line3
> ---------
>
> Why would you care? Itʼs so that you can have different bidi
> directions on different lines without having to separate the
> paragraphs with newlines (youʼd probably want to turn on
> `visual-line-mode' as well).
>
> Robert
> --
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-08 5:51 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
2022-11-07 13:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-07 13:57 ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-08 5:51 ` Evan Aad [this message]
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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