Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:21:55 -0600
> From: Gregg Reynolds <gar <at> arabink.com>
> CC: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>, emacs-bidi <at> gnu.org
> 
> > Sorry, there's still no support for bidi editing in any version of
> > Emacs, not even in the CVS.
> 
> Sure there is!  Well, sort of.  Emacs correctly shapes Arabic *words* 
> (including diacritics) RTL, but sentences run LTR.  Sometimes you have 
> to C-l to get it to redraw the shapes.

Is this on MS-Windows, by any chance?  Because if it is, then Emacs
has nothing to do with this: it's the Windows function used to display
a word, it reorders the logical into visual order automatically.  But
as soon as you move the cursor with C-f or the arrow keys, the
characters are displayed in their logical order, LTR.  That's not bidi
support, it's not even close.

> BTW, you know that Vim supports RTL?  But without bidi reordering.

Yes, I know.