Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer (was: summary shows R2L)

[Reiner Steib]

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On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:
[ Suggestions for Bidi (R2L) in Gnus summary buffer ]
> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?

Please disuss this on emacs-devel. See also the long thread around
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/142460/focus=143398>.

Bye, Reiner.

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On Thu, Jan 26 2012, السّلام عليكم wrote:

> السّلام عليكم (Hello),
>
> You will see the summary buffer is drawn right to left if:
>  - You use Emacs 24.
>  - The subject of this article is at the beginning of the summary
>    buffer.
>  - The summary line of this article has no mark, i.e., begins with
>    a space.
>
> If you don't see it so, try setting `gnus-summary-line-format' to
> the default value ("%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-23,23f%]%) %s\n").
>
> I found this today in a trash folder.  The other summary lines
> are also drawn right to left even if those are English messages.
> So, I added this snippet as a workaround:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook
>         (lambda ()
>           (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)))
>
> I think it worth making Gnus do it by default.  WDYT?
> In addition, I also tried the next one:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-article-mode-hook
>         (lambda ()
>           (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)))
>
> But I couldn't see whether it is worthwhile or not, since I'm not
> familiar with R2L text.
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