Evolution places quoted text in a table [WAS: GNU GPL]

Joep L. Blom jlblom at neuroweave.nl
Fri Jan 28 22:20:12 UTC 2011


On 28/01/11 21:24, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 14:33 -0500, Eric Morey wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 19:57 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
>>> First of all, to EVERYONE! This is an example of the message text being
>>> inside a box/cell that I rant about. Just try to reply and middle post
>>> to it, it can't be done.
>>
>> I noticed that you use evolution Evolution 2.28.3 to read and compose
>> emails. I've experienced this same issue in the past and have the same
>> result when attempting to reply to Ali Hassan's recent email. (I'm using
>> Evolution 2.22.3.1) I've filed a bug[1] after looking for an open one on
>> bugzilla. You should add a comment that you duplicated the bug in your
>> version.
>>
>> As a work around, I normally:
>> - highlight the text in the table/cell press ctrl+c to copy it the the
>> clipboard;
>> - open a plain old text editor;
>> - press ctrl+v to paste the text to the text editor;
>> - go back to evolution's composer and delete the table (either by just
>> pressing delete until the I'm sure that it is gone or right clicking the
>> table and choosing the delete table option;
>> - go back to the text editor and press ctrl+a, then ctrl+c to copy the
>> text to the clipboard without formatting;
>> - go to evolution's composer and press ctrl+shift+v to paste as quoted
>> text.
>>
>> It may seem like a lot of steps but it takes less than a second if I
>> already have a text editor open.
>>
>> If someone knows of a better way to be able to reply with in-line
>> comments in this situation when using evolution, please let me know.
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640849
>
> Well, thank God! I'm not completely natters, just on the fringe. I'll
> add my four cents to that bug. Thanks! Ric
>
>
Well. thank God I switched to Thunderbird over a year ago and never had 
mail problems again.
Joep





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