Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Hm, I think it's one of those things one could get used to in time, no 
> harder than deleting with d rather than Ctrl-X, pasting with P rather 
> than Ctrl-V, and copying with y rather than Ctrl-C.
Sure one could get used to it!
But d(elete) p(aste) y(ank) are sort of intuitive.
But it is counter intuitive to use a key which is placed (more to the) 
right on the keyboard (lll) to go left
and a key which is (more to the) left on the keyboard to go right (hhh).
Which is even more so if you are used to the opposite behaviour!
Like p doing yank (instead of paste) and y doing paste (instead of yank).

> so lllll goes uniformly first-to-last, and hhhhh last-to-first, even if the 
> movement is a little 
> jerky when meeting a direction change within a line of text. (Or did I 
> misunderstand? AFAICT I haven't got mlterm installed)
>   
Indeed, jerkiness is another reason to have h and l move in only one way.
> My notion would be that a true-bidi gvim should work exactly like 
> vim+mlterm with 'termbidi'.
>   
That would be nice! But I think there should be an option to make h and 
l movement unequivocal
(like it is with gedit+ViGedit).
And AFAIUI, it is because of these kind of discussions that Bram doesn't 
like the idea of a real-bidi gvim.

Anyway: thanks again!

Adriaan.

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