BidiAssist
BidiAssist or Bidirectional Assistant is a plugin for Gedit that helps users to manage their bidirectional (plain) texts easier.
Features
Here are current features:
Paragraph Direction
Left to Right Sets direction of selected paragraphs to left-to-right
Right to Left Sets direction of selected paragraphs to right-to-left
Clear Removes direction of selected paragraphs
Embed Text
Left to Right Embeds selected text as left-to-right
Right to Left Embeds selected text as right-to-left
Override Text
Left to Right Overrides selected text as left-to-right
Right to Left Overrides selected text as right-to-left
Clear Bidirectional Characters Removes all bidirectional characters in selected text
Download
The latest version is v0.93 and should work with Gedit <= 2.10:
- Binary Plugins files:
The source code is now available on GitHub at https://github.com/behnam/gedit-bidiassist
Install
You should just copy plugin files (from appropriate bziped tarball) to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/ or /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/.
More Info
- Gnome Bugzilla
- Free Desktop:
Specification: bidi-spec
Mailing List: bidi at lists.freedesktop.org