Text sporadically appears in reverse order, when typing in Kile

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#1

Hi: I’m curious as to whether anyone else has experienced this, and has an explanation. I’m running Kile 2.0.85 under openSUSE 11.3 32-bit on a Lenovo X61. Twice in the past couple of days I’ve had the bizarre experience that, upon a sudden burst of typing my text has appeared in Kile in reverse order. An example:

no ngis fo ecnacifingis eht fo redaer eht dnimer esaelp ,dniw cihportsoeG a htiw snoitalumis eht gnicudortni erehw ,921p tA

Note the perfect reversal (I rarely type that accurately in forward mode). A day later it happened again:

)1.3.5( noitceS fo hpargarap dnoces eht ni ,niaga ecnO

I’ve been using Kile for almost a year now, on two different machines and under several versions of openSUSE. Nothing remotely like this has happened before. I don’t think I have a virus. I can’t think of any event that may have heralded this mystical behaviour. Cheers, jdw

#2

On 04/06/2011 04:06 PM, j1d1w1 wrote:
> I don’t think I have a virus. I can’t think of any
> event that may have heralded this mystical behaviour. Cheers, jdw

forget virus…except when using the major virus-magnet (need i name it?)

have you installed any language which does not read left to right, top
to bottom (like arabic, hebrew, chinese, etc)

WAIT! see: http://tinyurl.com/6xttuv5

–
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [NNTP via openSUSE 11.3 + KDE4.5.5 +
Thunderbird3.1.8] Can you believe it? This guy Ralph wins $181 million
in the lottery last Wednesday, and then finds the love of his life just
2 days later. Talk about LUCK!

#3

Thanks DenverD – so its a known phenomenon, tolerable in small doses.