Re: [Evolution] Break citation when answering an email
Hi Pete, hi Xav, I investigated the source of the email further and saw that it ships both, a plain text and an HTML version. The HTML version consists of one big table. This might be the source of the problem. What indeed worked for me is to highlight the whole email with the mouse. (Do not use Edit – Mark the whole text (words could be wrong since I use the German locale).) Then I press answer and I can easily use the whole text of the old email and fill in my answers :-). Thanks for all your help, Simon Am Donnerstag, den 12.05.2011, 10:45 +0200 schrieb Xavier Bestel: On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: For some emails this does not work though. When I go in the cited text of such an email and press Enter, the inserted line has still the “” at the beginning. And I cannot delete this symbol. (When I press the backspace key, the line break is deleted.) If the original email is HTML formatted then this sort of thing happens - and more specifically it's to do with the table and div structure. Basically if the text is part of a table or a div container, then when you add text to it, the HTML interpreter of the editor still thinks the text you've added is part of that container and so puts a quote marker in front. The annoying thing is that this still happens even if you aren't replying using HTML. What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I get around it? The underlying reason for it is that the editor is sub-optimal - I think there have been long term plans to replace it, but I don't know how far that is advanced. As a work around you can highlight the text that you want to reply to in the original email, then hit reply. This will only copy the text without the underlying HTML formatting. You can also select the quoted text, and press the Indents the paragraph less button (on my old Evo, it's the 3rd button from the right, on the lower button bar (see attached screenshot). No guarantees though :) Xav ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] Break citation when answering an email
Hi, when I answer an email, I can go somewhere in the cited text (marked with “”), press Enter and write my own on text there – without a “” at the beginning of the line. Evolution does so automatically. That is very convenient. For some emails this does not work though. When I go in the cited text of such an email and press Enter, the inserted line has still the “” at the beginning. And I cannot delete this symbol. (When I press the backspace key, the line break is deleted.) What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I get around it? I use Evolution 2.28.3. Maybe a snippet of the email source helps: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-1337687924-1305129851=:37239 --0-1337687924-1305129851=:37239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks for your help, Simon ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Break citation when answering an email
For some emails this does not work though. When I go in the cited text of such an email and press Enter, the inserted line has still the “” at the beginning. And I cannot delete this symbol. (When I press the backspace key, the line break is deleted.) If the original email is HTML formatted then this sort of thing happens - and more specifically it's to do with the table and div structure. Basically if the text is part of a table or a div container, then when you add text to it, the HTML interpreter of the editor still thinks the text you've added is part of that container and so puts a quote marker in front. The annoying thing is that this still happens even if you aren't replying using HTML. What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I get around it? The underlying reason for it is that the editor is sub-optimal - I think there have been long term plans to replace it, but I don't know how far that is advanced. As a work around you can highlight the text that you want to reply to in the original email, then hit reply. This will only copy the text without the underlying HTML formatting. P. ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] Break citation when answering an email
On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: For some emails this does not work though. When I go in the cited text of such an email and press Enter, the inserted line has still the “” at the beginning. And I cannot delete this symbol. (When I press the backspace key, the line break is deleted.) If the original email is HTML formatted then this sort of thing happens - and more specifically it's to do with the table and div structure. Basically if the text is part of a table or a div container, then when you add text to it, the HTML interpreter of the editor still thinks the text you've added is part of that container and so puts a quote marker in front. The annoying thing is that this still happens even if you aren't replying using HTML. What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I get around it? The underlying reason for it is that the editor is sub-optimal - I think there have been long term plans to replace it, but I don't know how far that is advanced. As a work around you can highlight the text that you want to reply to in the original email, then hit reply. This will only copy the text without the underlying HTML formatting. You can also select the quoted text, and press the Indents the paragraph less button (on my old Evo, it's the 3rd button from the right, on the lower button bar (see attached screenshot). No guarantees though :) Xav inline: unquote.png___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
