Re: [Evolution] [gtkhtml] tabs ....

[Xavier Bestel <n0made free fr>]

Le 2001.04.26 20:28:45 +0200, Larry Ewing a écrit :
> On 26 Apr 2001 15:58:20 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le 2001.04.26 15:55:25 +0200, Dan Winship a écrit :
> > > > What's worse is that when received, they are shown as 8 spaces ! So
> I
> > > can't
> > > > copy/paste a received patch, it's just plain unusable - even in
> "view
> > > > source" mode. It seems to be a gtkhtml problem.
> > >
> > > Well, you can save the message and then extract the patch from
> that...
> > > but this is unfortunate. Not sure how fixable it is.
> >
> > Well, I think you can understand that's not how I want to work with my
> > mailer. Gtkhtml should not convert tabs to spaces, it should display a
> tab
> > as the correct amount of spaces, and transfer it as an actual tab
> character
> > when pasted.
> >
> > You seem to think it's not easily fixable ? 
>
> It is not easily fixable.  Layout inside gtkhtml is a lot more
> complicated than you seem to think.  We are planning on working on this
> problem at some point, but it isn't high on the priority list right now.
> As another possible solution to your particular problem, it sure would
> be nice if you could pipe a message directly to a command inside
> evolution, without having to save it first.

That's really NOT what I would call user-friendly ... I just want to copy
parts of my message to a text editor, and paste some other parts back,
without transforming content.

> As a side note, you should notice that cutting and pasting tabs does not
> generally work anyway, so the fact that it fails here is by no means
> unique, even if the way it fails is also less than optimal.

Well, it works with text mail clients on gnome-terminal, it works with
Balsa, I think it worked with Spruce, so far Evo is the first one to do
that to me. I know real hackers use mutt/pine & procmail, but I would have
liked to use Evo for these tasks.

Xav