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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs starts writing in reverse order
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 15:14:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0rlnxri.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK+40+iZuzCpOraZY95tWbDHpO+yHDfEp48iR+w=F3dviWw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Luca Ferrari on Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:55:06 +0100)

> From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:55:06 +0100
> 
> not sure what the problem is, but using packaged emacs 26.3
> (ubuntu/neon), spacemacs 0.300, I have a problem editing org mode
> source code snippets: whenever I start a src code block, the editing
> switches to an inderect buffer, but when I exit from the buffer to the
> original document Emacs starts writing in the opposite direction.
> I mean that the cursosr is fixed on the left of the line, and words
> are typing in an append mode, so that "emacs" appears as "scame". This
> happens only in the current buffer, other buffers do behave correctly.
> What is happening? I suspect is something related to bidirectional
> editing, could it be?

When that happens, what is the value of bidi-paragraph-direction in
the buffer where it happens?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-06 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-06 12:55 emacs starts writing in reverse order Luca Ferrari
2021-02-06 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-02-06 13:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-06 14:49 ` Luca Ferrari

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