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Created:     Wed Sep  3 20:00:00 CET 1997
Last update: Tue Jun 13 15:00:00 MET DST 2000

VIM - RightLeft Writing

This page is about writing text in languages that are usually written from right to left, such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian.

:help rightleft.txt

The command ":help rightleft.txt" will show the file "rightleft.txt". It's 7K of basic info that you should read first.

This helpfile was written by Avner Lottem [email protected] You can contact him if you need help when using Vim with rightleft mode.

Other pages

Farsi (Persian) [970911]: Vim compiled with +farsi has support for writing in Farsi. - There already was a patch for vim-4.6 that adds support on Farsi (Persian). It is available at every Vim mirror in subdir "farsi".; screenshot of VIMF-4.6; Contact/Porter: Mortaza G. Shiran [email protected]; Vim Farsi Info Page: http://www2.jps.net/~shiran/vim/; See also: http://www.parscom.com/ (does not work with my Netscape 4.04 97308)
Hebrew [970903,000605]: http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil/Hebrew/editors/ [obsolete]; Basically just a link to the Vim Home Page and a local copy of the distribution of vim-4.2. But there is also a link to a patch set for an older version of Vim to add rightleft mode.; Author: Gili Granot [email protected] http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gil/; On 000611 Gili told me: "I currently have no place for a web site."

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