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| author | Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org> |
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| date | Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:54:25 +0100 |
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| 5294 | 1 *rileft.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2006 Apr 24 |
| 7 | 2 |
| 3 | |
| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Avner Lottem | |
| 5 updated by Nadim Shaikli | |
| 6 | |
| 7 | |
| 8 Right to Left display mode for Vim *rileft* | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 These functions were originally created by Avner Lottem: | |
| 12 E-mail: alottem@iil.intel.com | |
| 13 Phone: +972-4-8307322 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 {Vi does not have any of these commands} | |
| 16 | |
| 17 *E26* | |
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18 {only available when compiled with the |+rightleft| feature} |
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| 20 | |
| 21 Introduction | |
| 22 ------------ | |
| 23 Some languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew (among others) require the | |
| 24 ability to display their text from right-to-left. Files in those languages | |
| 25 are stored conventionally and the right-to-left requirement is only a | |
| 26 function of the display engine (per the Unicode specification). In | |
| 27 right-to-left oriented files the characters appear on the screen from | |
| 28 right to left. | |
| 29 | |
| 30 Bidirectionality (or bidi for short) is what Unicode offers as a full | |
| 31 solution to these languages. Bidi offers the user the ability to view | |
| 32 both right-to-left as well as left-to-right text properly at the same time | |
| 33 within the same window. Vim currently, due to simplicity, does not offer | |
| 34 bidi and is merely opting to present a functional means to display/enter/use | |
| 35 right-to-left languages. An older hybrid solution in which direction is | |
| 36 encoded for every character (or group of characters) are not supported either | |
| 37 as this kind of support is out of the scope of a simple addition to an | |
| 236 | 38 existing editor (and it's not sanctioned by Unicode either). |
| 7 | 39 |
| 40 | |
| 41 Highlights | |
| 42 ---------- | |
| 43 o Editing left-to-right files as in the original Vim, no change. | |
| 44 | |
| 45 o Viewing and editing files in right-to-left windows. File orientation | |
| 46 is per window, so it is possible to view the same file in right-to-left | |
| 47 and left-to-right modes, simultaneously. (Useful for editing mixed files | |
| 48 in which both right-to-left and left-to-right text exist). | |
| 49 | |
| 50 o Compatibility to the original Vim. Almost all features work in | |
| 51 right-to-left mode (see Bugs below). | |
| 52 | |
| 53 o Backing from reverse insert mode to the correct place in the file | |
| 54 (if possible). | |
| 55 | |
| 56 o No special terminal with right-to-left capabilities is required. The | |
| 57 right-to-left changes are completely hardware independent. | |
| 58 | |
| 59 o Many languages use and require right-to-left support. These languages | |
| 60 can quite easily be supported given the inclusion of their required | |
| 61 keyboard mappings and some possible minor code change. Some of the | |
| 62 current supported languages include - |arabic.txt|, |farsi.txt| and | |
| 63 |hebrew.txt|. | |
| 64 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 Of Interest... | |
| 67 -------------- | |
| 68 | |
| 69 o Invocations | |
| 70 ----------- | |
| 71 + 'rightleft' ('rl') sets window orientation to right-to-left. | |
| 72 + 'delcombine' ('deco'), boolean, if editing UTF-8 encoded languages, | |
| 73 allows one to remove a composing character which gets superimposed | |
| 74 on those that proceeded them (some languages require this). | |
| 75 + 'rightleftcmd' ('rlc') sets the command-line within certain modes | |
| 76 (such as search) to be utilized in right-to-left orientation as well. | |
| 77 | |
| 78 o Typing backwards *ins-reverse* | |
| 79 ---------------- | |
| 80 In lieu of using full-fledged the 'rightleft' option, one can opt for | |
| 81 reverse insertion. When the 'revins' (reverse insert) option is set, | |
| 82 inserting happens backwards. This can be used to type right-to-left | |
| 83 text. When inserting characters the cursor is not moved and the text | |
| 84 moves rightwards. A <BS> deletes the character under the cursor. | |
| 85 CTRL-W and CTRL-U also work in the opposite direction. <BS>, CTRL-W | |
| 86 and CTRL-U do not stop at the start of insert or end of line, no matter | |
| 87 how the 'backspace' option is set. | |
| 88 | |
| 89 There is no reverse replace mode (yet). | |
| 90 | |
| 91 If the 'showmode' option is set, "-- REVERSE INSERT --" will be shown | |
| 92 in the status line when reverse Insert mode is active. | |
| 93 | |
| 94 o Pasting when in a rightleft window | |
| 95 ---------------------------------- | |
| 96 When cutting text with the mouse and pasting it in a rightleft window | |
| 97 the text will be reversed, because the characters come from the cut buffer | |
| 98 from the left to the right, while inserted in the file from the right to | |
| 99 the left. In order to avoid it, toggle 'revins' before pasting. | |
| 100 | |
| 101 | |
| 102 Bugs | |
| 103 ---- | |
| 104 o Does not handle CTRL-A and CTRL-X commands (add and subtract) correctly | |
| 105 when in rightleft window. | |
| 106 | |
| 107 o Does not support reverse insert and rightleft modes on the command-line. | |
| 108 However, functionality of the editor is not reduced, because it is | |
| 109 possible to enter mappings, abbreviations and searches typed from the | |
| 110 left to the right on the command-line. | |
| 111 | |
| 112 o Somewhat slower in right-to-left mode, because right-to-left motion is | |
| 113 emulated inside Vim, not by the controlling terminal. | |
| 114 | |
| 115 o When the Athena GUI is used, the bottom scrollbar works in the wrong | |
| 116 direction. This is difficult to fix. | |
| 117 | |
| 118 o When both 'rightleft' and 'revins' are on: 'textwidth' does not work. | |
| 119 Lines do not wrap at all; you just get a single, long line. | |
| 120 | |
| 121 o There is no full bidirectionality (bidi) support. | |
| 122 | |
| 123 | |
| 124 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: |