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

[Evan Aad]

Thanks. But what specifically do these lines accomplish?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 2:52 PM Emanuel Berg wrote:
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> Evan Aad wrote:
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> > 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 "^")
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> 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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