Re: [Evolution] Cursor positioning on replies/Reeke

[George Reeke <reeke mail rockefeller edu>]

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:47 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:25 -0500, George Reeke wrote:
> > Re: Evolution 2.32.3 on RedHat RHEL 6.5 (64-bit).
> > Everything works fine except I notice when I open a reply window,
> > the cursor sits at the upper left of the window as it should
> > (for top-reply used with everything but these lists), <snip>
>
> bg:
>
> The reason that almost every email program places the cursor at the
> beginning of the backquote is probably one of the most widely
> misunderstood phenomena on the Net. It is placed there because the
> idea is to allow the replier to scroll down through the backquote,
> snipping out everything but the couple-three lines relevant to their
> reply, then launching their reply *below* that.
> Brewster
> (user of email since 1981)
I understand and appreciate the philosophy you have explained about
why this "feature" works the way it does.  However, it does not work
the way I need to work with numerous colleagues who want top posting.
This is open-source software and one reason I use it is so I can
modify what is troublesome for me.  So I was planning to code this
to my liking and the purpose of my posting was to see if I could get
some hints about where to start looking.  I was assuming it would be
in the .ui files, but if it is in some C or C++ source code, it would
help to know that as well, as in that case I might not decide not to
bother.
All the best,
George Reeke