On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:10:46 +0300 >> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobg...@gmail.com> >> Cc: 11...@debbugs.gnu.org >> [stuff deleted] >> I tried inserting tabs into the buffer before the vertical bars, but >> after reordering it still didn't come out right. > > ??? What exactly did you try? You need to have a TAB before and after > each '|' that's between the cells (the outer ones do not need a TAB). > Like this (you should see this correctly in Emacs 24.1; move cursor > with C-f to see the logical order): > > | אבגד | הוזחטי | > > Isn't this what you wanted?
Yes. Great! This is indeed what I wanted. My mistake was that I tried it with a tab character before OR after the vertical bar. This solution should be really simple to implement in org-mode as it means that instead of joining the table columns with "<space><vbar><space>" as is currently done, you just need to use "<tab><vbar><tab>" as well as setting the tab width to 1. But I just wonder, is there any other character (preferably white space character) with the same end-of-segment-boundary properties as tab, in case tab is used for something else in org-mode? Or is it possible to take an arbitrary character, e.g. U+E0020, and bless it with end-of-segment boundary properties and then use that in the org-mode buffer? As a side note, I really like the idea of end of segment separator, and I wasn't aware of it when I wrote fribidi a long time ago. I wonder if the semantics of the emacs segment separator follows the Unicode Bidi Algorithm?
