[Evolution] External editor and line feeds

[Kim Foltz <kafoltz cox net>]

On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 21:29 -0500, Kim Foltz wrote:
> I am running Evolution 3.2.0.5 on OpenSuse 42.2 with KDE and have
> tried to use an external editor to respond to existing messages. The
> email header shows Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8. Carriage
> returns/line feeds are converted to a capital A with a caret(^) on
> top. I have tried several different editors and am currently using
> Kompozer. When finished and the external editor is closed the message
> is returned to Evolution with the carriage returns/line feeds
> removed. Everything is left as one long line with no carriage
> returns/line feeds in the message.
> 
> Is there a way to preserve the original layout from Evolution in the
> external editor?

        Hi,
I'm unsure what your question is. The first paragraph suggests that the
text returned from the external editor either has new lines missing or
they are not visually preserved by the Evolution composer. The second
paragraphs reverses the order, like you want line feeds in Evolution
being shown in the external editor.

Anyway, you said text/html. That has no significant line feeds, unless
the part being used is set to be Preformatted. Otherwise the HTML uses
<br> to mark line endings. Try to select the text in Evolution composer
and set its format to Preformatted.

I do not see any related change to line endings in the external editor
plugin since 3.20.x, except of the port to WebKit2, but that, as such,
also doesn't have anything to do with line endings.
        Bye,
        Milan

The original email message in Evolution.

On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 03:42 -0400, Pat & Don Dufford wrote:

Aha.

Couple hours ago I went back to Linux, found the Avira folder and clicked on the Delete button and got a message that I needed permission to carry out that order, with a button to continue which I clicked and it deleted it!  Ditto for the Program Data file for Avira.  I then ran the Avira registry cleaner which seemed to run OK.  I then looked at autoruns and found 6 services associated with Avira and went back to Linux and deleted them and Windows would not start!

The email message in the external editor (line endings are word wrap).

On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 03:42 -0400, Pat & Don Dufford wrote:    Aha.        Couple hours ago I went back to Linux, found the Avira folder and    clicked on the Delete button and got a message that I needed    permission to carry out that order, with a button to continue which    I clicked and it deleted it!  Ditto for the Program Data file for    Avira.  I then ran the Avira registry cleaner which seemed to run    OK.  I then looked at autoruns and found 6 services associated with    Avira and went back to Linux and deleted them and Windows would not    start!        

The email message on return to Evolution. (Truncated to preserve space.)

On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 03:42 -0400, Pat & Don Dufford wrote:    Aha.        Couple hours ago I went back to Linux, found the Avira folder and    clicked on the Delete button and got a message that I needed    permission to carry out that order, with a button to continue which    

The HTML markup in the original Evolution email is perfectly normal and the tags are all closed correctly. None of the HTML tags are passed to the external editor.

How do I pass the HTML tags to the external editor?