Turn off RTL for syntactical characters in bidi lines

I am editing a document that has English, Hebrew, and Arabic in it. The cursor movement is based on the language the cursor is on so it jumps in different directions. Inserting and appending text is also unpredictable.

For example, if a line is: Peace | שלום | and I paste at the end of the line : سلام It will become: Peace | שלום | سلام I want it to be: Peace | سلام | שלום Editing the line is also difficult.

Here is a similar request on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54538844/disable-right-to-left-editing-in-vscode-in-mixed-language-files

I’d like the ability to easily turn on and off RTL while I’m editing or have the ability to override RTL for the entire document.

[aradalvand]

No updates on this one?! This makes any line of code that has both English and RTL languages in it completely confusing. The behavior should be just like Visual Studio, the current behavior of VSCode is incorrect. Wish you’d give a little more attention to this issue.

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