First, if you have comments about Evolution, then you really need to tell us what version of it you are using. Things change rapidly and what you are commenting on may not be relevant any more.
> > 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. I realize this isn't very helpful, > but it is obvious that the editor is trying to be smart about things > like email address, signature blocks, and previous messages in a mail > thread. What it is trying to do is unclear, The issues is to do with replying to emails that are in HTML format, and in particular the HTML that some clients create. It is helpful to understand HTML, once you do that, you can sort of understand why things are happening. Specifically when inserting text, the pasted text can become part of the original HTML structure - if nested DIV blocks are involved, the placing of the inserted text can appear to be random. This happens even if the reply you are typing is in plain text (i.e. not HTML) - this is because the underlying editor works on HTML formatting if there are HTML codes in the text, it just then presents the text in a plain text rendering. (That may be a simplification, but it's how it appears.) You can often see dotted boxes in the text when you are editing it - these are the DIV (or whatever) blocks that the editor is dealing with. The solution I have found is to make sure that you press return a few times where you want to insert text to make sure there is a blank line or two to insert the text into - the editor is intelligent enough to "re-HTML" the text when you do that, but not, apparently, when you add text. In general though, I don't find it to be that much of a problem - I write hundreds of emails almost exclusively in Evolution and don't often have problems. > so operations like trying to > add paste an additional email address into one of the address lines have > strange results, especially when address already exist in a line. There are strict formats for the address lines - make sure you aren't accidentally pasting addressing into the middle of other addresses - you just have to be aware of where the cursor is. > Trying > to paste text after the signature block seems impossible (it always ends > up in signature block), Good. The signature block comes at the end - any text after the "-- " *is* part of the signature block. > and trying to copy text from text that was > pasted into a message often results in all the previously pasted text > disappearing. Personally, I would be happier with a dumb editor that > just accepts whatever text I paste into it, There is a plugin for an external editor, look under Edit -> Plugins Things may also get better when the WebKit editor gets integrated. > > I am looking for a server-centric mail client to replace evolution, so > that I don't need to rebuild my address book, signatures, etc. every > time I use a different computer, but have not yet found one that is > acceptable. Try gmail. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
