Re: [Evolution] Search selects the search term in the email

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 20:18 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> Evolution 3.32.4
>
> More of an annoyance than anything else.
>
> When you search for something using "Message contains" (and possibly
> others), the term you search for is highlighted everywhere in the body
> of the resulting emails using a yellow background, which is nice.
>
> However, the first occurrence of the term in the email is also selected
> - this means that on replying to the email (which is often what I need
> to do), only the selected term is included in the reply as quoted text
> (which is most certainly not what is needed). So the sequence goes
> Search -> Reply -> Swear -> cancel -> unselect -> Reply.
>
> Is there a reason why the search term is selected?

My guess would be a bug. This is clearly undesirable behaviour. I'd say
a bug report is in order.

poc