<p>Yep, exactly my experience, fine in Notepad AND fine when pasted from there into a new message.</p><p> Not sure but I think that when I pasted from Notepad into the same message screen (now emptied of visible characters by my select all/ cut/) I was typing backward again.</p><p>(What would we ever do without Notepad.) </p><p> Even weirder, the example I pasted into my plea for help appeared "backwards" in the message window but has been corrected in the posted version. Obviously should have had Greenshot do a screenshot instead of pasting text. </p><p>And how do you reproduce the effect until you find the cause... a conundrum, or possibly palimpsest...  </p><p>One thing that occured to me is that it might have something to do with the "A" key, which is one that gets pressed accidentally (my control key is remapped to be opposite it for faster typing), because Arabic languages are right to left. But nothing I've tried has evoked the boustrephodon glitch yet.  </p><p>Thanks for replying, it's always good to know the glitch has attacked someone else!</p><p>molly </p>

<p>Every once in a while I hit a combination of keys that causes the text lines to go nuts.Here is a clip from a not particularly private exchange about wallpaper images between me and my sister in law. The effect is even weirder when I see it on my message writer screen, but you can see that the period has wrapped to the front of the line (.spectrum rather than spiritual and in the next para the full stop should be after "shape," not .And ) Also, the one space indent shouldn't be there -- it's a function of the text going backward. Or in boustrephedon. </p><p>I hope someone knows what the heck I hit -- and how to undo it (BTW ^Z doesn't fix it, evidently whatever I did is embedded for good in that message), if it's not a toggle.</p><p>I did a copy and paste to Windows Notepad, which strips about everything from a text string, and the effect disappeared (and comes back if I copy, cut or delete, and then try to paste the text back into the same message). I took a look at the RAW view of the message(s) above and didn't see anything that meant anything to me. </p><p>BTW, I thought there was a list of keyboard shortcuts somewhere? </p><p>TIA</p><p>molly </p><blockquote>****************************************************************** <div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><i> </i></div><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><i>(quoteback from my message) </i></div><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> </div></blockquote><div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"><div style="FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline"> <blockquote><div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Well, here's my favorite picture for wallpaper and a bunch more.  Also, here's the</span></font></div><div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">spectrum one I have on my big screen and can't give up. Very spiritual.</span></font></div></blockquote><div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></div> <div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I didn't crop them much, not knowing your screen shape.</span></font></div> <div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></div> <div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And my landlady in Arcata's wonderful Dahlia.</span></font></div> <div dir="rtl" align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </span></font></div></div></div><p> </p>

<p>A list of keyboard shortcuts can be found here:</p><p>http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/han_lkfr.htm</p><p>As for the other problem, beats me.  A couple of days ago I hit a key combination that caused the cursor to hold position while typed characters appeared to the right, effectively typing right to left.  I opened Notepad to test it the problem was Pegasus Mail specific.  Typing was normal in Notepad and and returned to normal when I returned to Pegasus Mail.    I don't know what caused it or why switching to Notepad and back fixed it. </p><p> </p>