On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:24, Frank Gore wrote:
Over the past few months, I've slowly come to the realization that maybe Evolution isn't the ideal tool for my purposes. Perhaps someone here can convince me otherwise by pointing out what I'm doing wrong. ... No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to ever be able to copy and paste things out of displayed emails in evolution (what some people call the "preview pane"). I've tried everything I could think of, but it never works. Shift-Delete, Ctrl-C, even Edit/Copy from the menu. None of it ever manages to copy anything. The only way I can ever get it to copy or cut text is if I hit Reply and copy the text out of the email editor. This is a HUGE drawback when I'm doing order tracking and need to quickly copy UPS tracking numbers into a spreadsheet or the browser. There's no way I'm gonna type hundreds of tracking numbers by hand everyday. And having to hit Reply to every email before I can copy text out of it is a pain. This has plagued me ever since the first 1.0 release of Evolution. What am I doing wrong? Am I the only one with this problem?
I can't help you with the others, but as for copy/paste, what happens when you just select to copy and middle-click to paste? (the standard unix way.) I'm sure Ctrl-c and edit/copy should both work, but selecting text in X11 should *always* copy it. --Ben
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