Re: [Evolution] Sorely disenchanted with Evolution (looong)



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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