Re: [tlug] writing japanese top-down right-left in linux

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Michal Hajek writes:

 > I am fan of command line and basicaly console (or xterm) programs. 
 > And even if I am not much of a programmer myself, I was curios, what
 > possibly one have to do in order to get vim version capable of writing 
 > top-down right-left ? I would like to know if there is a principal
 > problem in design or is it just a matter of say plugin (even tough I
 > perhaps do not understand fully what vim plugin is) ? 

This would very likely require substantial surgery on the redisplay
module in vim, similar to (though not as far reaching as) the work
Haramboulous and Plaice did to create Omega.