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

[Evan Aad]

Thanks, Robert. Why would I probably want to turn on
'visual-line-mode'? What does this mode do?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 3:58 PM Robert Pluim wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:03:45 +0200, Evan Aad said:
>
>     Evan> Thanks. But what specifically do these lines accomplish?
>
> It means that
>
> ---------
> line1
> line2
> line3
> ---------
> is treated as 3 separate paragraphs by the bidi code. With the default
> values, youʼd have to write
>
> ---------
> line1
>
> line2
>
> line3
> ---------
>
> Why would you care? Itʼs so that you can have different bidi
> directions on different lines without having to separate the
> paragraphs with newlines (youʼd probably want to turn on
> `visual-line-mode' as well).
>
> Robert
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