; * lisp/term.el (term-mode): FIXME comment about bidi reordering.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/term.el b/lisp/term.el
index 562d9b0487c..f477bccbe2e 100644
--- a/lisp/term.el
+++ b/lisp/term.el
@@ -1101,6 +1101,12 @@ Entry to this mode runs the hooks on `term-mode-hook'."
   ;; Without the below setting, term-mode and ansi-term behave
   ;; sluggishly when the buffer includes a lot of whitespace
   ;; characters.
+  ;;
+  ;; There's a larger problem here with supporting bidirectional text:
+  ;; the application that writes to the terminal could have its own
+  ;; ideas about displaying bidirectional text, and might not want us
+  ;; reordering the text or deciding on base paragraph direction.  One
+  ;; such application is Emacs in TTY mode...  FIXME.
   (setq bidi-paragraph-direction 'left-to-right)
 
   (easy-menu-add term-terminal-menu)