Thanks. I've never built Emacs from source. I think it might be easier for
me to wait till this patch makes it to the official release.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:18:39 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Cc: 27526@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > From: Itai Berli <itai.berli@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 18:57:33 +0300
> > >
> > > How about letting the user decide what's best for them? Would it be
> possible to add an option to Emacs that a
> > > user can set, say, in their .emacs file, which will determine whether
> the bidi imiplementation will consider the
> > > newline character as the paragraph separator or an empty line?
> >
> > Could be.  I'd need to carefully review the code to say for sure.
> > Originally, the regexp which defines where paragraph begins was
> > customizable, but it led to grave bugs, so I removed that.  Maybe a
> > more restricted facility could avoid such pitfalls.
>
> It turned out to be relatively easy, so I implemented this on the
> master branch of the Emacs Git repository.  There are two new
> variables that you should set to "^" to get the behavior you wanted.
> I hope you can build the master branch and see whether the new
> facilities solve your case.
>
> Thanks.
>