From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs starts writing in reverse order Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2021 15:14:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83k0rlnxri.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1055"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 06 14:16:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l8NRw-00009P-1m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2021 14:16:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51994 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l8NRv-0007sE-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:16:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60264) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l8NQK-0007s0-6L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1l8NQH-0002ge-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:14:49 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2720 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1l8NQF-000181-Kx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2021 08:14:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Luca Ferrari on Sat, 6 Feb 2021 13:55:06 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127635 Archived-At: > From: Luca Ferrari > 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?