Re: [Evolution] Strange behaviour of Ctrl-V

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I notice that in Evo 2.30.2 if I have a URL in the clipboard (copied
> from a browser window for example) Edit->Paste (Ctrl-V) pastes the
> *contents* of the URL as an attachment. To paste the URL itself I have
> to use Edit->Paste Quotation (Shift-Ctrl-V).
>
> IIRC this is a change and I'm not sure I like it. It seems odd that the
> more usual option of pasting the URL -- which is what I want to do maybe
> 99.999% of the time -- is harder to get to. No doubt someone thought
> that pasting the attachment might be useful, but I can't actually think
> of a single reason why I would ever want to do that. I often complain to
> people who waste bandwidth sending a page when they could send a URL.
> What on Earth is the point?

I can't get the (bad) behavior you describe.  For me, everything about
pasting URLs works as before.  Best take a rest and try again in the
morning.  And let's hope that Evolution isn't starting to do weird
things.

jon