On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 14:29 -0400, Bill West wrote: > I have numerous problems trying to edit things in emails I am trying to > send (addresses, subject lines, the content of the message). Simple > typing works fine, but any type of cut and paste operation seems to have > strange and unpredictable results.
Does this happen in a specific mode? Plain Text vs. HTML? I pretty much use Plain Text exclusively and I don't experience any issues editing messages; except Plain Text replies to HTML messages - then sometimes it is very difficult to delete blank lines from the quoted part of the reply. But HTML isn't meant to be editable... so I kind of get that. I hope the WebKit based composer [in 3.9.x?] will improve on that. > to paste text after the signature block seems impossible (it always ends > up in signature block), I'd assume that is a feature, no a bug. The signature is the end. > and trying to copy text from text that was > pasted into a message often results in all the previously pasted text > disappearing. I recall an issue with disappearing text at some point; I do not believe I've ever seen that in 3.8.x. It may have gone away in 3.6.x as well. The early 3.x.x did have some widgety issues - and it also corresponded with large changes to Gtk as well [which Evolution uses, and is packaged by the distribution. Some bugs were only exposed with certain theme settings. Again, that was an underlying Gtk issue]. > Personally, I would be happier with a dumb editor that > just accepts whatever text I paste into it, and just tries to verify > formatting on email addresses when I actually send the email. Yea. A plugin to embed gedit as an editor would be sweet. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
