[FEATURE] RTL text direction / right-alignment support in the chat panel (VSCode extension)

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 2, 2026 by assafbiton1000

Preflight Checklist

  • [x] I have searched existing requests and this feature hasn't been requested yet
  • [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

Support for RTL text direction and right-alignment in the chat panel, ideally:

  • Auto-detect the dominant text direction per message/paragraph (similar to how most modern chat UIs and browsers handle bidi text), or
  • A user-configurable setting (e.g. in settings.json) such as "chatTextDirection": "rtl" | "ltr" | "auto" that controls alignment and direction in the chat panel.

Proposed Solution

I currently avoid mixing Latin technical terms mid-sentence in Hebrew responses to reduce bidi-rendering breakage, but this is a workaround on the content side — it doesn't fix the underlying rendering direction of the panel itself.

This would primarily benefit Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and other RTL-language users of the VSCode extension.

Alternative Solutions

_No response_

Priority

Critical - Blocking my work

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

<img width="353" height="876" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a650174-36cb-4d03-b21a-f87dff57f0cd" />

Additional Context

This would primarily benefit Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and other RTL-language users of the VSCode extension.

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