Hello I just found poor-mans-bidi.el written by Niels Giesen, for GNU emacs, it uses either the freebidi or the bidiv engine. Here it is how it works, You turn on the minor mode, the screen gets split, a new buffer the BIDI buffer is created, which seems to be some sort of indirect buffer, of the original one. You start writing say hebrew L2R in the original buffer and it gets displayed R2L in the BIDI buffer via the freebidi engine, line breaks works. So this could be a nice enhancement of xemacs, since we have no BIDI support at all. The package works nicely in GNU emacs 23, it also works (sort of) in GNU emacs 24, although it does not make much sense since 24 has its own built in bidi-engine which is in conflict with the freebidi output. Now the mode works in xemacs for small buffers and mails. For large buffer however the BIDI buffer only displays the beginning of the original buffer, but if the cursor is say in the middle of the original buffer the BIDI buffer does not display this (it does so in GNU emacs). The author seems to have no interest in maintaining this package, given the circumstances very understandable. Is there anybody on the list with BIDI interest and lisp skills to have a look? Aidan? thanks Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta