I haven't enabled another language than English, but the editor tends to move my cursor from right to left, if I'm editing the middle of a line.
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Can you provide a more specific description of the issue you're seeing? How to report a bug can help you with that. Thanks.
I meant right to left.
That sounds all good to me, as English is a Left-to-Right language.
I meant right to left.
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What's your web browser and operating system? Does this happen on all pages or just one?
Slackware GNU/Linux, various web browsers (not all Mozilla,) all pages.
Can you please at least confirm on which wiki this is happening? Thanks.
at least Wikipedia
at least Wikipedia
Which of the 300 Wikipedias? :) Please also see How to report a bug for hints how to provide steps to reproduce - thanks!
Just Wikipedia... didn't say I use one of the 299 new (subdomain) ones; stated my language at a top
Can you describe in a bit more detail exactly what is going wrong, as I'm not sure I follow?
I read 'how to report a bug' and there's basically nothing more to say. This has been happening for months/years, so maybe across several versions of the Visual Editor, though I don't edit as much as in the 2000s, so unsure how many years this has been going on. There are no more details other than obviously, I was typing on a line (what else would I be doing?) and the text was moving from right to left. It just seems to happen randomly, but a lot, like if I edit a huge article with things to add to several sections, the text direction will shift maybe 50% of the time... and they're not articles with Hebrew or Japanese, etc. Sometimes I was able to retry writing in the text a different way, then eventually it worked. I went to that test2 site but just can't edit it, so this is apparently all I can say.
"I haven't enabled another language than English" definitely doesn't mean "I only edit the English Wikipedia". On en.wiki, click on the gear next to "Languages" in the left sidebar. Those are the Universal_Language_Selector settings. Both display and input ones should be pointing to English (actually the input one should be disabled, I think).
This said, on the English Wikipedia, this is your only edit with the visual editor ever. So, one idea is that you could mean that the problem is about the 2017 wikitext editor instead, as that's the one you seem to be using regularly (although this may or may not make a difference). To see whether this changes anything, you could go into your Beta preferences at en.wp, unselect both "Automatically enable all new beta features" and "New wikitext mode", save, and see if the shifting issue also occurs with the older wikitext editor you are using now.
There are several other things that we may suggest if this doesn't solve. However, it requires a bit of patience and collaboration. For example, you could have suggested a single article where the issue always happens, state at which point specifically you started editing, etc. You could also have tried in a sandbox and saved the final result. The amount of details may look irrelevant to you, but it's what helps others figure out what is happening. (Just looking at your previous contributions there doesn't help much, sadly.)