Subject: Re: bug#9209: bidi slowdown

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:04:08 -0400

> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:50:05 -0400
> From: emacs user <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> it seems that c-p is slower than c-f, c-b and c-n, M-v and c-v which
> are all also slow.  setting bidi-paragraph-direction to left-to-right
> does seem to fix the problem.

Thanks.

What is the name of the vm summary buffer?  Is that name fixed when vm
is used?

I think bidi-paragraph-direction should be automatically set to
left-to-right.  The question (being discussed on emacs-devel) is how
to do that, given that vm is not bundled with Emacs.