Re: [Evolution] Feedback

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 14:29 -0400, Bill West wrote:
> I have numerous problems trying to edit things in emails I am trying to
> send (addresses, subject lines, the content of the message). Simple
> typing works fine, but any type of cut and paste operation seems to have
> strange and unpredictable results. 

Does this happen in a specific mode?  Plain Text vs. HTML?

I pretty much use Plain Text exclusively and I don't experience any
issues editing messages;  except Plain Text replies to HTML messages -
then sometimes it is very difficult to delete blank lines from the
quoted part of the reply.  But HTML isn't meant to be editable... so I
kind of get that.   I hope the WebKit based composer [in 3.9.x?] will
improve on that.

> to paste text after the signature block seems impossible (it always ends
> up in signature block), 

I'd assume that is a feature, no a bug.  The signature is the end.

> and trying to copy text from text that was
> pasted into a message often results in all the previously pasted text
> disappearing.

I recall an issue with disappearing text at some point;  I do not
believe I've ever seen that in 3.8.x.  It may have gone away in 3.6.x as
well.  The early 3.x.x did have some widgety issues - and it also
corresponded with large changes to Gtk as well [which Evolution uses,
and is packaged by the distribution.  Some bugs were only exposed with
certain theme settings.  Again, that was an underlying Gtk issue].

>  Personally, I would be happier with a dumb editor that
> just accepts whatever text I paste into it, and just tries to verify
> formatting on email addresses when I actually send the email. 

Yea.  A plugin to embed gedit as an editor would be sweet.