Re: [Evolution] Problem with pasted text

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 07:57 -0400, Seth Williamson wrote:
> Thanks for this suggestion.  Unfortunately, pasting it via the menu
> command makes no difference at all.  There's still that dotted line that
> makes a box around the text, the solid bar down one side, etc.  I can't
> find any way to just get it to paste in plain text without getting this
> odd behavior as a consequence.  Very irritating...

There's a bug in bugzilla about this (40320). The problem is that the
mail display code puts a <table> around the body of the email to create
a margin, and if you select the entire body of the mail, GtkHTML selects
the surrounding <table> too. So when you paste it into the composer,
you're pasting an HTML blob in which all of the text is contained in a
single top-level table (which you can't edit properly because you're in
plain text mode).

An easier workaround than the paste-into-gedit one is to just not copy
the entire message. Select all but the last character, copy, paste, and
add that last character back in by hand.

-- Dan