Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer (was: summary shows R2L)

Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer (was: summary shows R2L)

[Reiner Steib]

[ Full quote below for emacs-devel ]

On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:
[ Suggestions for Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer ]
> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?

Please disuss this on emacs-devel. See also the long thread around
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/142460/focus=143398>.

Bye, Reiner.

[ Full quote below for emacs-devel: ]

On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:

> السّلام عليكم (Hello),
>
> You will see the summary buffer is drawn right to left if:
>  - You use Emacs 24.
>  - The subject of this article is at the beginning of the summary
>    buffer.
>  - The summary line of this article has no mark, i.e., begins with
>    a space.
>
> If you don't see it so, try setting `gnus-summary-line-format' to
> the default value ("%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n").
>
> I found this today in a trash folder.  The other summary lines
> are also drawn right to left even if those are English messages.
> So, I added this snippet as a workaround:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook
> 	  (lambda ()
> 	    (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)))
>
> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?
> In addition, I also tried the next one:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
> 	  (lambda ()
> 	    (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)))
>
> But I couldn't see whether it is worthwhile or not, since I'm not
> familiar with R2L text.
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Re: Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer (was: summary shows R2L)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:27:29 +0100
> Reply-To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:
> [ Suggestions for Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer ]
> > I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?

Summary buffers should definitely have left-to-right paragraph
direction by default.  I said it long ago, several times AFAIR.  It
should definitely be done before 24.1 is released.  Now is a good
time, IMO.

> Please disuss this on emacs-devel. See also the long thread around
> <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/142460/focus=143398>.

That thread is about something different: it's about how to avoid a
jumble caused by reordering of the _fields_ in the summary lines.

Re: Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:27:29 +0100
>> Reply-To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:
>> [ Suggestions for Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer ]
>>> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?

> Summary buffers should definitely have left-to-right paragraph
> direction by default.  I said it long ago, several times AFAIR.  It
> should definitely be done before 24.1 is released.  Now is a good
> time, IMO.

Done in Emacs trunk and Gnus trunk.  Thanks.

Re: Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:39:24 +0900
> From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
> Cc: Reiner.Steib@gmx.de, ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> >> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:27:29 +0100
> >> Reply-To: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:
> >> [ Suggestions for Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer ]
> >>> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?
> 
> > Summary buffers should definitely have left-to-right paragraph
> > direction by default.  I said it long ago, several times AFAIR.  It
> > should definitely be done before 24.1 is released.  Now is a good
> > time, IMO.
> 
> Done in Emacs trunk and Gnus trunk.  Thanks.

Thank you.