From ea6b01d4d4638eb4554f41c9201997e4616cbbf9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 19:42:53 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; * lisp/term.el (term-mode): FIXME comment about bidi reordering. --- lisp/term.el | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/lisp/term.el b/lisp/term.el index 562d9b0487c..f477bccbe2e 100644 --- a/lisp/term.el +++ b/lisp/term.el @@ -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) -- 2.39.2