Re: Why Does gVim Reverse Characters In Each Line?

Thanks for the answers.
It was cockpit error.
The gVim icon was set gvim -F %F, instead of gvim -f %F.

On May 3, 10:15 pm, Tim Chase <v...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 09:02 AM, octopusgrabbus wrote:
>
> > I am using gVim and editing a file using eftp://user@host//<full-path-to-file>.
> > Each line in the file has its characters reversed. Yet, if I copy
> > those lines and try to paste them here, they are in normal reading
> > order. What setting do I need to change?
>
> Strangely, it sounds like 'revins' is getting set.  You can check
>
>    :verbose set ri?
>
> This might be an artifact of some locale setting that thinks
> you're typing in a right-to-left language.  Or perhaps the
> particular file in question has a modeline that calls for
> reverse-insertion.
>
> You can read more at
>
>    :help 'ri'
>    :help modeline
>    :help ins-reverse
>    (as well as the remainder of the rileft.txt helpfile
>     that second help-target drops you in)
>
> -tim

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