[Solved] Evolution 2.26.1 does not wrap around text lines in the 'Re: <subject>' window unless highlighted before

[Detlef Lechner]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 12:50 -0500, sktsee wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 09:28 +0200, Detlef Lechner wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > [Evolution 2.26.1] When I click on 'Reply', a window 'Re: <Subject>'
> > opens which displays the text of the selected received email.
> > Unfortunately this window does not format the received text in the form
> > which will be seen by the recipient: It does not wrap around the lines
> > at the standardized line length. 
> > Is this a known error? 
> > But surprisingly, Evolution does wrap it around if I selected
> > (highlighted) the whole text before in the main window.
> > How to correct this?
> > 
> 
> Evolution defers to the format of the original message when quoting it
> in a reply.  If you wish to wrap the quoted material when replying,
> click somewhere in the quoted portion and type Ctl-K, or select it from
> the menu Format->Wrap lines. Alternatively, you can select the quoted
> material and change the style from Preformatted to Normal from the menu
> Format->Paragraph Style->Normal (or from Format toolbar).

This works very well. Thank you for your help.

Detlef Lechner