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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-06-26 19:42:53 +0300
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-06-26 19:42:53 +0300
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; * lisp/term.el (term-mode): FIXME comment about bidi reordering.
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@@ -1101,6 +1101,12 @@ Entry to this mode runs the hooks on `term-mode-hook'."
;; Without the below setting, term-mode and ansi-term behave
;; sluggishly when the buffer includes a lot of whitespace
;; characters.
+ ;;
+ ;; There's a larger problem here with supporting bidirectional text:
+ ;; the application that writes to the terminal could have its own
+ ;; ideas about displaying bidirectional text, and might not want us
+ ;; reordering the text or deciding on base paragraph direction. One
+ ;; such application is Emacs in TTY mode... FIXME.
(setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
(easy-menu-add term-terminal-menu)