Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:24 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:08 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: 3) select the quote. Why are these or a similar option not available in Evolution? You can do this, if I understand what you mean. Just select some subset of the message with

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread HggdH
Personally I'd like to see the quoting process a lot more flexible including different quoting styles, etc. Specifying where the cursor should start in the composer seems like a subset of that. Maybe this is something a plugin could do? +1. I find myself every so often changing the

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Milan Crha
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and then scrolling to the bottom for *every single reply you type* all I can say is that it

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and then scrolling to the bottom for *every single reply you type* all I can say is that it

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:08 -0400, Greg Vickers wrote: If I'm feeling exceptionally lazy or have had a bad day, or am replying in kind to a top poster, I'll just top post The only thing worse than top post and quote everything, is a thread with mixed top and bottom posting. You can't follow

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:28 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and then scrolling to the bottom for

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:58 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and then scrolling to the bottom

[Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been raised before, but I can't find any previous discussion of it, just plenty of complaints about top-posters. IMHO there should be an option to locate the text

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been raised before, but I can't find any previous discussion of it, just plenty of complaints about

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been raised before, but I can't find any

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:08 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: 3) select the quote. Why are these or a similar option not available in Evolution? You can do this, if I understand what you mean. Just select some subset of the message with your mouse before you click Reply, and only that part of your