Re: [Evolution] Problem with reply and other stuff

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 08:21, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 18:18, John Angelmo wrote:
> > Fre 2002-10-18 klockan 00.18 skrev Jeffrey Stedfast:
> > > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 17:54, John Angelmo wrote:
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > For some strange reason all my replys seems to start on top of the
> > > > message and not on the bottom (as the standard is) how can I fix that?
> > >
> > > eh?
> >
> > Standard is to put your reply below the quoted text, mozilla fixes this
> > without any problem
>
> but you don't reply at the bottom, you comment within the quoted message
> normally. If you are just replying to let them know "ok, sounds great"
> no need to reply at the bottom and make the guy/gal scroll to the bottom
> of the message to read it. That's pretty annoying, instead you'd want
> that comment at the top of the message.
>
> > > > I did choose to only write in text and no HTML is there any way to
> > > > remove the HTML icons that resides right above the messagebody?
> > >
> > > not currently, no.
> >
> > Are there any plans to fix it?
>
> Probably. Does it really annoy you that badly though? Takes up like a
> quarter-inch on my screen. Besides, you still need the Preformat/Normal
> option menu.
>
> > A reply should also remove everything below "-- " signature.
>
> We had evolution do this for a bit but got complaints that it was
> stripping more than signatures if the original sender used "-- " in the
> body of his message somewhere.
>
> You're welcome to send us a patch tho...should be easy enough to add,
> just instead of doing a strstr (body, "\n-- \n") - you'd have to search
> the string from the bottom up.

we already have a patch for this ... i thought it ended up going in?