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@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
additional documentation.
-To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
-`bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value. The default is nil.
+To turn this off in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
+`bidi-display-reordering' to a nil value. The default is t. For text
+that includes no right-to-left characters, the result of reordering
+looks exactly as it did in previous versions, i.e. there's no
+reordering at all.
The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction