Re: [Evolution] Problem with pasted text

[Seth Williamson <orthodox ntelos net>]

God bless you--that does the trick.  Of course, it totally removes line
ends into the bargain, but I can live with that if it gets rid of the
blasted HTML behavior, which was slowly driving me barking mad.  Thanks
for this help.


Seth Williamson
Daleville, VA

On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 16:06, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> søn, 18.04.2004 kl. 20.45 skrev Seth Williamson:
> > I have noticed an exception to the rule on this problem.  Several times
> > I have had to paste into the Evolution editing field large chunks of
> > text from the Open Office word processor.
> >
> > It pasted in perfectly, with none of the HTML weirdness, and was easy to
> > edit.  The problem seems to occur when I'm pasting into an outgoing
> > letter a big chunk of text from another letter in Evolution.  Apparently
> > there is some kind of formatting, HTML or rich text or something else,
> > that is part of the text in an Evolution editing field.  I wish there
> > were some way to "sterilize" the text and get rid of everything but
> > plain old text, because the odd behavior you most frequently encounter
> > while doing this is a major pain in the a++.
>
> Paste it first into gedit, then paste that text into Evo. Works a treat.
>
> I suppose it's one of those things like the Gnome 1 clipboard which
> didn't work at all without all kinds of funny stuff in between, and
> which suddenly works perfectly in Gnome 2. It'll go away in the end,
> with new desktop and Evo versions. As it is, it's now all *so* much
> better than Windows, that the little things don't seem to matter so
> much, any more. Anything, but anything rather than Windows ;)
>
> --Tonni