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Re: What do the "bidi-paragraph-start-re" and "bidi-paragraph-separate-r


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: What do the "bidi-paragraph-start-re" and "bidi-paragraph-separate-re" do?
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:44:22 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Evan Aad wrote:

> I have annotated most of the customizations in my .emacs
> file, but there are a few I haven't, and I no longer know
> what they do. I'd like to run them by you, please.
>
> The first couple of mysterious customizations are the
> following couple lines:
>
>   (setq-default bidi-paragraph-start-re "^")
>   (setq-default bidi-paragraph-separate-re "^")

It's for so-called bidirectional text, I suppose in practice
Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, the way these guys write are just
all over the place :)

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