> Hi There,
>
> I am interested in writing bidirectional text in Vim. I realise, from
> previous discussions on the list, the it would be difficult to support
> the bidi standard in Vim. However, I was wondering if a more manual
> approach would be easier to implement. What I had in mind was to extend
> the syntax highlighting system, to allow specifying the direction of a
> syntax region. This would mean that the direction of a character is
> determined by its syntax group, so no implementation of the bidi
> algorithm is necessary. Of course, displaying a string in the correct
> direction is more complicated than highlighting with a given colour, but
> perhaps it is easy enough (I'm not familiar with the code).
>
> If this can be done, I think it will solve most practical problems,
> since when editing latex, for example, text in different direction will
> appear in particular commands or environments.
>
> Thanks,
> Moshe
I like the idea of bidi in Vim, but I'd rather see it done right or not done at
all. We don't need another hacky half-job which will end up with workarounds built
on top of workarounds etc.. We have too many of those already.
Just my $0.02.
Ben.
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