I have noticed an exception to the rule on this problem. Several times I have had to paste into the Evolution editing field large chunks of text from the Open Office word processor.
It pasted in perfectly, with none of the HTML weirdness, and was easy to edit. The problem seems to occur when I'm pasting into an outgoing letter a big chunk of text from another letter in Evolution. Apparently there is some kind of formatting, HTML or rich text or something else, that is part of the text in an Evolution editing field. I wish there were some way to "sterilize" the text and get rid of everything but plain old text, because the odd behavior you most frequently encounter while doing this is a major pain in the a++. Seth Williamson Daleville, VA On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 07:57, Seth Williamson wrote: > Thanks for this suggestion. Unfortunately, pasting it via the menu > command makes no difference at all. There's still that dotted line that > makes a box around the text, the solid bar down one side, etc. I can't > find any way to just get it to paste in plain text without getting this > odd behavior as a consequence. Very irritating... > > Seth Williamson > Daleville, VA > > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 00:10, David Mohr wrote: > > It's because evolution seems to think by default that pasted text should > > be quoted. You can get around that pretty easily, just go to Edit -> > > Paste instead of doing a X paste if I remember correctly. > > > > ~David > > > > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:09, Seth Williamson wrote: > > > Can somebody explain why--when you have to paste in a big chunk of > > > copied text to the editing area of a letter in Evolution, that it has > > > that big bar down the side and the cursor acts funny? Sort of like > > > you're dealing with some kind of weird HTML formatting or something? It > > > is really my only complaint with Evolution. Every now and then I have > > > to paste in a big chunk of text to a letter I'm sending, and if I have > > > to edit it, this odd behavior makes the editing very difficult. Any way > > > to avoid this problem? > > > > > > Seth Williamson > > > Daleville, VA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
