Status of bidi-xterm ?

[Karl Koehler <koehler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'd like to ask if anybody has been working on bidi-xterm since 
Robert Brady's xterm-152-27 patch, especially if it has been 
updated to xterm-157.
In any case, color is broken in combination with bidi; the
appended patch ( against xterm-152-27 ) fixes this for 16-color 
mode.
Another problem with this bidi-approach surfaces with programs
like w3m-m17n which arrange text of tables in columns.
Of course, one could say that programs more sophisticated than
"cat" should do their own bidi, but in most cases, the choice
of RTL as base direction would fix that; so I suggest adding
this option to the menu.


	Karl


--- xterm-152/screen.c  Sat Aug 11 18:28:52 2001
+++ xterm-152-new/screen.c      Sat Aug 11 17:50:47 2001
@@ -1129,6 +1129,8 @@
           })
           if_OPT_ISO_TRADITIONAL_COLORS(screen,{
                fb = SCRN_BUF_COLOR(screen, lastind + topline);
+               magical_reordering(screen, row, &fb);
+
                fg_bg = fb[col];
                fg = extract_fg(fg_bg, flags);
                bg = extract_bg(fg_bg, flags);



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