Re: [Evolution] copy & paste oddness

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 09:05 -0800, bg wrote:
> Ubuntu 16.04 Evo 3.18.5.2
>
> This only showed up in the latest version - never a problem
> previously.

        Hi,
unfortunately it's the latest version in your old distribution which
provides you with an old version of Evolution. The current stable
version is 3.26.2.

> I tested it again just now, and here turned up a curious phenomenon;
> I can place the cursor
> squarely at the first character of the "Cc" field, visually verify
> that the cursor *is* there,
> and when I click on "paste", the pasted string pops up at the point
> where the cursor
> last resided before I placed it in the "Cc" box.  Not in the "Cc"
> box.

I suppose you mean the text is pasted into the message body, instead
into the place which has focus. That sounds known and fixed, but I do
not have any particular bug reference handy, I'm sorry.

I noticed this bug when searching for the above, which sounds related:
   Mail addresses pasted in the To: field are cleared
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777141
        Bye,
        Milan