> it seems to me everyone would be better served by splitting vim into two: > normal vim that goes left to right and arabic vim (viml?) that goes > right to left > -- both apps would be simpler because they wouldn't have to go both > directions.
This still requires a few people maintaining the right-to-left version. With the added handicap that all changes to the left-to-right version have to be merged. And authors of those changes won't have any idea what trouble they cause for the right-to-left version. This is worse than what we have now. The current right-to-left feature is limited, all the text is reversed in direction. Proper bidirectional support works very differently. While at the same time, the user has to decide how the stuff besides the text is placed: number column, signs, menus, command line, etc. Ideally bidirectional support is added on top of the existing right-to-left support. This does require a few people (who actually use right-to-left) to do this work. -- "Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred" /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// \\\ \\\ sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20221001213530.1B0D81C065C%40moolenaar.net.
