Re: Paragraph direction in Org Mode (was: Slow/poor responsiveness in org files)

[Eli Zaretskii]

Ping!

> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:34:21 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:51:41 -0400
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:36:25 -0400
> > > From: Mathieu Boespflug <address@hidden>
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > 
> > > > I will propose to Org mode developers a change to set
> > > > bidi-paragraph-direction automatically on all Org buffers.
> > > 
> > > Ok. Thank you for looking into this. However, does this mean it won't be
> > > possible to have R2L text in Org buffers?
> > 
> > No, it doesn't mean that.  It just means the display will start at the
> > left window boundary, even if the item includes R2L text.  To
> > illustrate, you will see
> > 
> > * foo
> > * bar
> > * OOF
> > * RAB
> > 
> > (where "OOF" and "RAB" are R2L text typed as "FOO" and "BAR",
> > reordered into correct visual order), rather than
> > 
> > * foo
> > * bar
> >                                                                     OOF *
> >                                                                     RAB *
> > 
> > with the default (nil) setting of bidi-paragraph-direction.  I think
> > the latter is ugly anyway.
> 
> Bastien,
> 
> As followup to this thread (and other similar discussions in the
> past), I propose the change below to org.el.
> 
> Let me know if you want me to commit this to the Emacs trunk or wait
> for your next merge.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> === modified file 'lisp/org/org.el'
> --- lisp/org/org.el   2011-09-02 16:38:40 +0000
> +++ lisp/org/org.el   2011-09-14 15:30:49 +0000
> @@ -4748,6 +4748,7 @@ The following commands are available:
>      (org-set-local 'line-move-ignore-invisible t))
>    (org-set-local 'outline-regexp org-outline-regexp)
>    (org-set-local 'outline-level 'org-outline-level)
> +  (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
>    (when (and org-ellipsis
>               (fboundp 'set-display-table-slot) (boundp 'buffer-display-table)
>            (fboundp 'make-glyph-code))
> 
> 
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