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

[Rick Berger <rberger rogers com>]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 21:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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).

I just tried this in both format modes and it just kept quoiting.
Something I've noticed, and I don't know if it's related, is in the
source of original message the body seems to be duplicated in a
compacted HTML section. In it everything is embedded in a HTML table,
could Evolution be using this version in it's reply? 

Rick

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