(Only a suggestion) Perhaps you already know another great variation of Emacs: Easymacs, of P. Heslin. It is very useful for non programmers or those who use emacs for *texing. By the way it's the same as Emacs, but easier (more common keybindings or keystrokes). I don't know if it also could be better for your purposes, but I think so.
2010/5/19 Scot Becker <scot.bec...@gmail.com> > Emacs users and potential Emacs users might be interested to know that > the development branch of Emacs now has working basic bidi support > which is in need of wider testing. I can't testify to Arabic, Syriac > or other RTL languages, but I've had good luck with vocalized Hebrew > in the past few days. It makes typesetting XeLaTeX with Hebrew in > Emacs much nicer. > > To try it out you'll need: > > 1. The latest development sources of Emacs, including bzr and all the > Emacs prereq's. > > In Debian-based Linux distributions, that's available using something like: > $ sudo apt-get build-dep emacs23 > $ sudo apt-get bzr > mkdir ~/src/emacs > cd ~/src/emacs > > Full instructions for building Emacs are in the INSTALL file: > Mac users see here: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS > > 2. For Hebrew and Yiddish, you'll want the brand-new input methods > for Hebrew and Yiddish. See the attachment to this message: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi/597 > > I see that Emacs contains an older Arabic input method, which may > also work. I don't know. > > 3. That's it. Build Emacs. > To test bidi, evaluate this: > (setq-default bidi-display-reordering t) > > At this point you can start up your bidi XeLaTeX files and hack away. > > To load the above mentioned Hebrew input methods: > M-x load-library RET /path/to/abovementioned/hebrew.el > M-x set-input-method RET hebrewTAB > (to see the choices for Hebrew. There's a nice set of options, both > for those with Hebrew-keyboard fingers and those who want a phonetic > system. See the file hebrew.el for details.) > > It's a little bit of work to get it up and going, and if you find a > bug it's another bit of work to file a proper report on the GNU bug > tracker, but the developers are responsive, and keen to have bug > reports. I think it's fair to say that bidi support is fairly' > stable, perhaps even outright usable! > > You might find it instructive to read the last few weeks of the > emacs-bidi mailing list, to catch up. > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bidi > > You can also send your questions to that list by subscribing here: > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi > > Hope this is of interest to someone. > > Scot > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- ----------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad Área de Latín Universidad de Zaragoza Email: jffraileATunizar.es ------------------------------------------
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