Mostly Eudora stuff at the top, Agent stuff near the end of the new
text.

All of this is relevant to XP in general, and probably later OSes. At
least when using Agent or Eudora and I"m sure there are other programs
where this matters.

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:39:33
-0400, wrote:

Sometimes text moves to the right side of a field.

Running XP SP3, Eudora 7.1.0.9, and Agent 1.93.

I have Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian alphabets enabled, the first two you
know are written from right to left, but in an effort to stop this, I
removed key sequences that were usable to change to those alphabets.
(So now I don't know how to change to the right alphabet even when I
want to.) (In Text Services and Input Languages, which comes from
Regional and Language options, which comes from the Control Panel)

This occurs mostly or entirely in two programs, i) ForteAgent and only
in the composition window, at the top, in the Newsgroups field or the
Subject field. And ii) in Eudora, where all of the text in
the body will sometimes become right justified, line by line, that is,
not changing line breaks.

In Eudora, I realize it happens both when I'm editing an incoming email,
which Eudora permits, and when I'm editing a new outgoing email.

Do other email programs permit editing incoming email?

I must have touched certain keys

I finally got this part of this resolved tonight, regarding one of the
two problems in Eudora. All in all, I'd say the whole thing is
resolved.

The default method of changing languages and keyboards is Cntl-Shift (or
left-alt-shfit). Also, Cntl-Tab is the method I use for going trom one
pane to the next WITHIN Eudora. When I'm editing an incoming email in
Eudora, and I click on the pencil in order to do so, Cntl-Tab no longer
does that. The only way out of the edit pane is to X out (Cntl-W) or to
click the pencil again so I'm not editing anymore.

When I forget this, I find myself holding the Shift key down and
pressing Tab over and over. Nothing happens, but when I decide to
change directions, by pushing down right-Shift, that makes Cntl-Shft and
the language or keyboard changes and everything moves to be right
justified.

but I can't find the keys to get the text back to the left.

Doing Cntl-Shift again does nothing, for some reason. But clicking on
Blah-blah-blah, puts things back the way they were. This is true if
the Blah button is in or out. Only one click is needed either way.

But after all this, it turns out that if I close the message, even if I
save it before closing, the text reverts to the left, I think. That's
when editing an incoming email in Eudora. I haven't tried to test this
while writing a new message in Eudora

AGENT 1.93
But I did try it with Agent 1.9 with the insertiion point in the Subject
or Newsgroups fields of a composition window. Cntl-Right-Shift (probably
either Shift ) moves the text to the right side of the window. I
couldn't find a way to move it back. (Cntl-shift again did nothing)
But even if I save it, when I open it again, the text is back at the
left. Even if I've not done another Cntl-shift.

I guess before I was afraid to save the windows when they were like
this, for fear I wouldn't be able to find them again! Oh well.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Or how I stop it from happening
and how I reverse it when it does happen?

So it probably doesn't need reversing because it seems not to be
permanent.

(Please leave all 3 newsgroups so I don't have to read this thread in 3
places.)

I put this because I saw that one person, now 3 people, in
alt.home.repair, have removed newsgroups from the list, leaving only
their own. The groups here are more civilized, so it probably woudln't
have been a problem in the first place.