Re: Message Mode and bidi

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Christopher Culver via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>> When you compose a new message, is there a line "--text follows this line--"
>> separating the headers and the message text? In my case, there is (I use mu4e)
>> and when I type Arabic text on the line below this text, I get the effect you
>> mention. If I leave an empty line after "--text follows this line--", bidi works
>> as expected.
>
> Indeed, if I just go down one line and then begin typing, bidi works as
> expected. I am feeling very foolish that I did not even try this. Thank
> you for clearing up this problem, and for shedding light on how Emacs
> considers paragraphs.

This is a bit weird, because the value of `mail-header-separator'
("--text follows this line--") is added to both `paragraph-start' and
`paragraph-separate') in `message-mode'. You'd think one of those would
do it.