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:

  • http://zwnj.org/proj/gedit/bidiassist/bidiassist-0.93.plugin.gtk-2.0.tar.bz2

  • http://zwnj.org/proj/gedit/bidiassist/bidiassist-0.93.plugin.gtk-2.6.tar.bz2

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

  • Bug 353805 – GTK+ – Support for keyboard layouts

  • Bug 353812 – GTK+ – API for Changing Paragraph Direction

  • Bug 353814 – GTK+ – Adding Bidi features to Context menu

  • Bug 312006 – Gedit – Adding Bidi features

• Free Desktop:

  • Specification: bidi-spec

  • Mailing List: bidi at lists.freedesktop.org