[Evolution] Re: evolution test..... Re: 6 Hours Only-Save Up to 73%! Bonus Blizzard 6 Hour Sale!

[Zot O'Connor <zot zotconsulting com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 00:49, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 21:04, Zot O'Connor wrote: 
> > On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 06:20, Tom Randall X10 Discount Club Manager
> > wrote:
> >
> > This is a X10 mailing.  Can't get worse than this.  I selected
> > format HTML.  I notice the images are note loaded.....but I can edit
> > in the text below.
>
> Yes, but if you look below, there are various bits of text I have
> added to the email you sent me and it has inserted the text into the
> email I've replied to so that it looks like it's part of the original
> email, not text I've added. So I can do the same in plain text...  I
> mean what do you expect?  If you screw with the note, you screw with
> the note.  In some places it behaves properly, but those are the
> places where tables aren't involved.  Yeah tables foobar a lot in HTML
> in The browser and html editors as well.



> I sort of expect the behaviour if it is HTML email, but it happens
> even if you compose the mail as plain text because the underlying
> editor retains the HTML formatting even when editing text.

Now this is a problem when cutting and pasting from mozilla or
openoffice.  It is a royal pain.  I wind up pasting to a terminal
running vi, and then re-hiliting and pasting into evo.

For instance the following text appears to be in a text box of some
kind.  I cut and pasted from CNN.com's home page.  If I hi-lite and
paste the following text from within evo, it pastes as a text box, thus
the screwed up paragraphs below.

The suspect crashed this SUV, then shot self.

The Georgia man sought by the FBI in the abduction of three girls and
the slayings of four people -- including his infant daughter --
apparently shot
The suspect crashed this SUV, then shot self.

 himself at the end of a police chase, authorities said. The girls are
safe. 
The suspect crashed this SUV, then shot self.

FULL STORY


> P.
>
> ps I've copied this to the evolution list so that others can see what
> I'm talking about.

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Zot O'Connor <zot zotconsulting com>
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