Re: [Evolution] HDU stop reply response lines from being prefixed by '>'

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 20:40 -0400, Rick Berger wrote:
> Sometimes when I reply to an email Evolution treats the original as a
> single object and quotes it that way. This means any response text I
> insert in it is automatically quoited making it look like part of the
> sender's message. How do I stop this so my response line aren't prefixed
> with '> '? 

I've seen this happen sometimes when the message being replied to is
formatted with rich text (possibly when the text is right-justified). It
can be detected because when the cursor is in certain positions the
quoted material has a box of dotted lines round it. Trying to add lines
at the bottom doesn't help since the '> ' prefix is inserted
automatically.

What seems to work is to move the cursor to the right of the block of
quoted text (as if it were a single object) and then hit return. It
might make a difference if you select Preformat vs Normal in the format
box (or vice versa).

Sorry if this isn't very clear but I've only seen it rarely and the
effect is hard to describe.

poc