Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:24 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:08 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote:
> > 3) select the quote.  Why are these or a similar option 
> > not available in Evolution?
>
> You can do this, if I understand what you mean.  Just select some subset
> of the message with your mouse before you click "Reply", and only that
> part of your message will be quoted in the reply.  I just did that to
> create this message, selecting only your comment above.
>
>
> Personally I'd like to see the quoting process a lot more flexible
> including different quoting styles, etc.  Specifying where the cursor
> should start in the composer seems like a subset of that.  Maybe this is
> something a plugin could do?

I'm all for flexibility, but as the saying goes "the perfect is the
enemy of the good". If we wait for someone to write a plugin with
various bells and whistles it might never happen, whereas the simple
option I'm asking for would presumably take a lot less effort.

poc