[Evolution] minor-feature requests

[Chris <lists forevermore net>]

Just a few suggestions from my many hours of usage experience...

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first, a "paste quoted" command would be really nice - takes the text on
the clipboard and pastes it with the appropriate > prefix on each line,
wrapping when necessary.

"rewrap" - come on, even pine has this.  I often cut out chunks of
quoted text (or unquoted text) and it's nice to be able to rewrap it to
the message width.

  better yet, some sort of text filter command that could be spit out to
  any number of scripts (perl, awk, sh, etc) so we could write our own 
  "paste quoted" and "rewrap" type routines if the standard ones 
  suggested above aren't quite what we're looking for.

also, add a few more colors for multiple levels of quotation (again
going back to my "even pine does this" sentiment)

turn maildir display into the tree format it's designed for, rather than
just displaying the .Folder.subfolder notation (and rename . to Inbox). 
You might also want to allow this to work instead of the default INBOX
under "local folders" - my maildir inbox *is* my main inbox (well, since
maildir format is funky, it's set up as an imap connection, but you get
the idea)

contact list export?  This is honestly the biggest lacking feature I can
think of.  I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses multiple email
programs (one at home - evolution, and one at work - pine).  It's a
nightmare trying to keep the addressbooks sync'd by hand (in fact, I
don't even bother trying).  Even a couple of tiny console utilities for
extracting entries would do the trick (we could then script them to
export into whatever format we need)..

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Please don't get me wrong, evolution is a great product and I wouldn't
use anything else in linux (except for pine, since evolution doesn't
work so well via ssh from the NT box I have to use at work), but some of
these things really should have been included a long time ago (imho)...

-Chris