bug#20611: 24.4; mutt slow in ansi-term

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 12:50:18 +1200
> 
> The outcome of bug#23801 is that the bidi problem has been fixed in
> the master branch of Emacs, such that bidi support can safely remain
> enabled in term-mode without causing slowness.
> 
> That upstream fix won't be merged to the emacs-25 branch and hence
> won't be in 25.1 (and may or may not be in 25.2 either); so it's
> desirable for the current workaround (enforcing the left-to-right
> direction for terminals) to remain in place in the emacs-25 branch.
> 
> I think the remaining question is whether we leave the workaround
> as-is (affecting only the ansi-term command specifically), or
> improve it to make it effective for all types of terminal.
> 
> I would like to see it moved to term-mode. Personally I am setting
> the bidi value in term-mode-hook in my own config, which successfully
> resolves the issue for all of my terminal use-cases.

Moved to term-mode, and closing.

Thanks.