Re: [Evolution] stability

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 09:48 -0700, David L wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM, bg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:12, Ben May wrote:
> >
> > Likewise. I can't believe there are so many people who think you
> > have to "reconfigure" an email program in order to move the cursor
> > anywhere you want :-)
>
> In all seriousness though, in the last year or so, evolution
> won't let me position the cursor in the middle of a
> reply and hit return without making it look like my
> inserted text is part of the original message... ie, it adds
> a ">" at the beginning of each line so I can't interleave
> my response without it looking like the original poster was
> answering their own questions.  How do I fix that?  I bet I
> have to reconfigure evolution. ;)  This only happens with
> certain emails... these emails get a little dotted box around
> the text of the original message whenever I click anywhere
> in the message.  Any ideas?

It happens when the original message is formatted in HTML (more
brokenness, but let's not go there).

However I believe there is a bug in Evo when you reply to a
multipart/alternative message. Even if you configure Evo to compose in
plain text, if the message you're replying to has an HTML part, that's
the one Evo will select. The workaround is to select the text you're
replying to before hitting Reply.

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595955

poc