Re: [Evolution] Quote $ORIG[body] in templates

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

Hello Caleb

Seems you mail was lost with no reply.
You are mentioning a number of issues that look like bugs/RFE to me.

You should list them on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ so they don't "get
lost" on the archive:

On 2017-11-09 at 00:40 -0600, Caleb Herbert wrote:
> Coming here from
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-composer-message-templates-variables.html.en
>
> Evolution 3.10.4 on Trisquel GNU/Linux.
>
> I'm trying to use templates to insert text at the beginning of all
> messages.
>
> I tried this template:
>
>         Dear $ORIG[from],
>         
>         > $ORIG[body]
>
> It ended up looking like this:
>
>         Dear Bob,
>         
>         >Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.  Ut
>         tempor, lectus eget pharetra euismod, mauris sem viverra arcu,
>         suscipit varius leo dui sit amet ex.
>         
>         Nunc sollicitudin lectus sit amet ipsum facilisis imperdiet.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You asked for ">" plus the content of the original message. That's what
you got. You were probably expecting all lines to be quoted, but what it
did was -literally- what you asked it to do.

I would probably fill a Request For Enhancement in bugzilla for a way to
apply a prefix to all lines in a parameter.


> In replying to HTML messages, $ORIG[body] is completely absent.
>
> When using a template, a blank line is inserted at the beginning of the
> message, even though my cursor was never placed there, and it was not in
> the template.

These look like bugs.


> Also, Claws Mail templates had a way of specifying the location of the
> cursor.  Is there a way to do this?
>
>         Suspendisse nec purus et velit pulvinar tincidunt id quis justo.
>         
>         $CURSOR
>         
>         --
>         Alice

Create an enhancement request on bugzilla. Although may not be
straightforward, as it will need to figure out how to provide that
position to the right webkit API.



> And is there a variable to use a defined signature, so I don't have to
> hard code it?

I don't think so. Please create yet another bugzilla request for this
(this one seems easier).

Best regards