linuxmint / xed

X-Apps [Text] Editor (Cross-DE, backward-compatible, GTK3, traditional UI)
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Force text direction #633

Open avidseeker opened 6 months ago

avidseeker commented 6 months ago

This is essential when editing Bidirectional text documents. It basically forces a text direction on the whole text buffer for easier editing.

This is supported in Firefox for example. Try pressing Ctrl+Shift+X on HTML textbox (like this comment section).

Here is an example demonstration in Windows notepad:

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