Hi Tim. I don't want to turn off message quoting completely, because
limited quoting is helpful I find. As for the second option, that's
a possible alternative, yes. But I can duplicate his behavior 100%
of the time. I'm typing this now before deleting any of the text
from your reply and VO is behaving as expected ... i.e., word mode is
working just fine. So I'm baffled as to why you cannot duplicate
this. What I've been doing is interacting with the HTML text to read
and edit the message I'm replying to. I.e., remove the text below
what is pertinant to my reply and then move back to the top of the
text and add my reply. Another thing about Mail which I confess I'm
a little less than keen on is that your message signature is shown as
part of the composing window. Thus, when you edit, that goes as
well. In my old mail client, the signature is added by the client
post-editing. But back to the issue in hand. No matter what else I
do, if I edit the reply before I start typing, VO misbehaves. Most
odd indeed.
On 23 May 2006, at 13:27, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Gordon,
I attempted to duplicate the issue as you outlined below and Mail
stayed in Word mode for me. I'm not disputing what you say but its
extremely odd that I cannot get VO to behave as you do. Possibly a
way around this for you may be to do as follows:
1. In Mail Preferences, under the Composing tab, tell Mail not to
quote the text from the original message. Then there will be no
editing to do.
2. If you like having some of the message there, let's say for QA
purposes when answering questions in posts, you could copy the
desired text before pressing cmd+r to reply then pasting it into
your reply area.
It may behave the same as usual for you but its an option to try.
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