On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Eran Levy wrote:
>
> > I have downloaded vim and its working with vim -H option.
> > but its writing inverted hebrew, for example I want to write "Ha" its
> > writing "aH".
> > what do I have to change to make it working?
It is writing correct hebrew, you only see it "inverted", because your
display does not invert it.
>
> Not sure but you probably looking for the rl command. I am not very familiar
> with vi terminology but I guess that you should:
>
> 1) Press ESC 3 or 4 times.
> 2) Key in : set rl <enter>. After pressing the colon (:) key make sure that
> you are in vi command (?) mode. By that I mean that you should see the colon
> appear at the botton line of your terminal. Only then the rest of what you
> type in will be able to achieve the desired effect.
> 3) Return to insert (?) mode and start doing whatever you wanted to do.
>
> In general, the most basic Hebrew related commands are
> 1) : set hkmap - lets you type in Hebrew letters.
> 2) : set rl - makes the text read from right to left.
> 3) : set nohkmap - disables the Hebrew letters.
> 4) : set norl - disables right to left rendering.
There are a couple of others. From within vim run:
:h hebrew
to get the complete list (including the ones for screen reveting, and text
instertion reverting)
>
> This is probably on the faq that Zafrir and others wrote. That faq probably
> contain some settings to put in your .vimrc to ease the Hebrew mode in and out
> by some function keys.
see also: http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/?file=101
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