Re: [Evolution] Spell check suggestions in composer

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 11:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 11:51 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 10:57 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 10:48 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 00:31 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 00:23 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 22:53 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > > > >  Edit->Prefences->Composer->"Wrap quoted text in replies"
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Interesting. I've often wanted that. I see it's enabled by
> > > > > > > default.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Although having said that, I realise I actually meant something
> > > > > > different: I'd like to reflow quoted text in replies. I think the
> > > > > > wrapped text has been there for a while now, not just in 3.20.
> > > > > It gets rid of the stupid breaking of lines in quoted text that
> > > > > results
> > > > > in single words on a line (like in your original reply to my post).
> > > > > Reflowing as an option would be nice as well.
> > > >
> > > > In that case I'm confused. I have the option set and IIRC it has been
> > > > set for a long time, if not forever.
> > > No, you want it unset so it doesn't wrap the quoted text - it's the
> > > wrapping that causes the single words on a line as the quoting depth
> > > increases. TBH reflowing is of limited use - as the quote depth
> > > increases, the line length of the quoted text will get shorter until it
> > > looks really stupid - and what happens when there's so many quotes
> > > there is no space for text!
> >
> > OK, done. Thanks for the clarification. Obvious when you think about it.
>
> Further to this, I now find that when replying I get Preformatted as
> the default edit mode, which is literally never what I want. I do use
> Preformatted occasionally for quoted material but IMHO having to
> remember to turn it off all the time is a usability bug. The default
> mode should be the same whether one is replying or starting a new mail.
>
> I assume it's related to the "don't wrap text in replies" option, since
> toggling that changes the behaviour.
>
> I've filed a BZ: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768919

No, I was wrong. The confusion is because when I reply I start by
deleting the signature on the quoted text, which of course changes the
mode to Preformatted.

Apologies for the noise.

poc