Kicad 5.99 Issue with text justification + pink traces

Software
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Schematic text justification seems to be reversed:

Right Justified:
image

Left Justified:
image

PLUS:
I haven’t been able to duplicate it on demand but sometimes a wire and perhaps label will be highlighted pink. I cannot return the wire and label to normal with any keyboard command but if I close the document and reopen it the wire is normal.

Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)

Version: (5.99.0-10539-g7356f9568d), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.1.4
	libcurl/7.74.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19041), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: May 10 2021 09:12:07
	wxWidgets: 3.1.4 (wchar_t,STL containers)
	Boost: 1.75.0
	OCC: 7.5.0
	Curl: 7.74.0-DEV
	ngspice: 34
	Compiler: Visual C++ 1928 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON
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The justification thing is a historical quirk and is planned to be fixed in a future version: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6489

The “pink wire” is probably net highlighting - you are probably doing this accidentally by pressing the ` (backtick) key when the cursor is over a wire, since this is the default hotkey for highlighting the net under the cursor.

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Could be that back tick but I’m usually not near that key. I’ll watch.

BTW how do I cancel the net highlighting?

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