Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour of Reply

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 10:34 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I've upgraded from 1.5.9.1 to 1.5.92.1 (on Fedora Core 2). When I hit
> Reply the following happens:
>
> 1) The composer opens with the quoted message displayed one word per
> line down the page.
> 2) Despite this, when I send the message the result is correctly
> formatted (I sent a few to myself to test this).
> 3) If I preselect the quoted text and then Reply, this doesn't happen,
> *even if the selection is the entire message*. Meaning I have a
> workaround so it isn't the end of the world.
>
> It doesn't seem to matter if the message is HTML or plain text, or if
> it
> Reply or ReplyAll, or if the character set is ASCII or not, or if it's
> a
> mailing list or not, or if it's PGP-signed or not.

Some more info. I noticed that on hitting Reply without preselecting,
the composer starts up with the quoted message in Preformat mode. I can
then manually select it and change the mode to Normal, and the problem
disappears.

When I Reply with a preselection, the mode starts as Normal.

poc