bug#9209: bidi slowdown

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:37:55 +0100
> From: Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
> Cc: Uday Reddy <usr.vm.rocks@gmail.com>,
>     user.emacs@gmail.com,
>     9209@debbugs.gnu.org,
>     u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk
> 
> What needs to be done? set bidi-paragraph-direction to 'left-to-right?

Yes, in the summary buffer.

> Can't the effect be achieved by doing setq-default initially?

You mean, for all of Emacs?  It's possible we will do just that, but
even so VM should not rely on that, because some user could revert the
default setting.