On Sat, May 18, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: official hebrew in Linux-IL mailing lists?": > OK, so I will be able to pipe an emacs buffer through bidiv, similarly > to what I do with M$ HTML garbage (pipe it through lynx -stdin -dump) > and with some Word docs I get (pipe them through strings).
Yes. > Great. Now > how do I reply citing original? > > Nadav, will you please give a URL for bidiv - I'll try it on Diego's > posting? ftp://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/src/cmdline/bidiv-1.3.tgz (you'll also need the fribidi library - I hope this bidiv version works with the current fribidi, after all their changes... If not, please tell me and I'll release a fixed bidiv). > It is, if you 1) do your emailing inside a superb editing environment > whose only drawback is lack of Hebrew support; Is it not possible to open an external editors for special messages? I'm not suggesting that you need to switch editors for all your mail - just start (say) vim for Hebrew messages that you'll send (if ever) once in a blue moon. > OK, here is a different "bull": I've never used vim in my life. Have you used vi? vim is the same thing, with some improvements. Just add the following in your ~/.vimrc for editing iso8859-8-i (this will let you switch direction and language with the F12 key): map <F12> :set invrl invhk map! <F12> ^O:set invrl invhk cmap <F12> ^_ (replace ^O and ^_ by control-O and control-_ respectively). -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, May 18 2002, 8 Sivan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |He who dies with the most toys is still http://nadav.harel.org.il |dead -- Citibank billboard, Manhattan 2001 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]