Re: Proposal for BiDi in terminal emulators

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:07:51 +0200
Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 17:45:06 +0000
> > From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
> >
> > > > So, what do you recommend I run grep from for Hebrew or Tai
> > > > Lue?
> > >
> > > Inside Emacs, of course: "M-x grep RET" etc.
> >
> > That assumes you like using bindings for all the commands; I
> > don't.
>
> What bindings? "M-x grep" just shows the Grep hits in a separate
> window, you don't need to do anything except reading them.
>
> The advantage is that you get bidi reordering and text shaping for
> free, something you won't get from most terminals.

Which is why I try to remember to issue the emacs command 'M-x shell'
command and issue grep commands from the buffer created thereby. The
point I'm making is that this emacs command hasn't made terminal
emulators obsolete, even though it also does graphics.

Richard.
Received on Sun Feb 03 2019 - 14:50:22 CST