topic Re: Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor in New SAS User

Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor

thescottishkiwi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:52:01 GMT

Occasionally, something happens where newly typed characters appear to the right of my cursor meaning word etc are written backwards. I don't know why this is happening. Has happened a couple times on the "ON" line of a proc sql join, more than that I cannot say.

It appears to me that this a setting within a script, sort of like bold font or something, because it only happens very occasionally and it seems to be specific to some location within a script? sometimes I can deal with it by just writing my code on a new line. Other times it follows me. So far it's never affected me from the very begining of a script.

Why is this happening and how can I turn it off? Also, why would this be useful?

I am using SAS Studio as a virtual app.

Re: Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor

ChrisHemedinger — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:59:45 GMT

Hi @thescottishkiwi -- odd problem, for sure!

Can you tell us which SAS interface you are using? SAS Studio? SAS OnDemand for Academics? SAS Enterprise Guide?

Re: Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor

thescottishkiwi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:28:42 GMT

This is in SAS Studio which I have access to as a virtual app.

Re: Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:39:11 GMT

The first thing that occurs to me is that your regional settings were set for right-to-left typing, or the browser mode was toggled for that. Browsers have different keyboard shortcuts that can toggle between right-to-left (to support languages such as Hebrew) and left-to-right. As you're accessing through a vApp, I don't know if this your local browser or the "remote" virtual app browser that's affected.

Re: Why are typed characters appearing to right of cursor

thescottishkiwi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:43:22 GMT

This problem is only occuring occasionally though. Like very occasionally, it appears to be limited even within a single script, sometimes I can deal with my just moving to a new line and typing out my code again and everything is fine