Re: Message Mode and bidi

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:06:43 +0100
> From:  Christopher Culver via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
> > When you compose a new message, is there a line "--text follows this line--"
> > separating the headers and the message text? In my case, there is (I use 
> > mu4e)
> > and when I type Arabic text on the line below this text, I get the effect 
> > you
> > mention. If I leave an empty line after "--text follows this line--", bidi 
> > works
> > as expected.
> 
> Indeed, if I just go down one line and then begin typing, bidi works as
> expected. I am feeling very foolish that I did not even try this. Thank
> you for clearing up this problem, and for shedding light on how Emacs
> considers paragraphs.

No need to apologize.  The way Emacs handles paragraphs for the
purpose of bidirectional text is described in the Emacs user manual,
in the node "Bidirectional Editing".