From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do the "bidi-paragraph-start-re" and "bidi-paragraph-separate-re" do?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:44:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0yforx5.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CA+-Lr-D3NOeTyFbCH+Z2RgDQqxieSLtkN3XENZ3Jm=9T03i8Lw@mail.gmail.com
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 :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-07 12:44 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 [this message]
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
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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