Re: [Evolution] Query about editing quoted text in Plain Text mode

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 14:10 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> My current query is:
> Is editing of quoted text in the Plain Text mode used?
> What do you expect from it?

Yes, as this message, to delete and inline.

> I'm thinking of dropping it, instead of rewriting it in JavaScript.
> Without it the quote characters would be there, but they will be like
> any other text, possible to edit/remove and so on. They would be
> switched to 'blockquote' when changing format to HTML and back to
> quote character on change to Plain Text mode.

I feel that is just fine; a plain text message is text, I expect and
desire no automagica in that mode.

> I do edit quoted text myself, mostly to correct wrapping and to split
> the quoted text into parts, under which I write my comments. While
> I'm used to manually wrap the text (using Delete/Backspace and Enter
> keys), it doesn't scale for long text. Having the Format->Wrap Lines
> extended to preserve quote character appropriately on re-wrap, I'd 

No... but I'm kinda in the why-are-l-o-n-g-sections quoted camp. :)

> use to it sooner or later. I sometimes create my own quoted part just
> by adding the quote character at the beginning of the line.

Ditto.
> I guess dropping "quote paragraph lines while typing in Plain Text
> mode" functionality would not cause any significant harm long term
> (habit factor considered), especially when its drop would simplify
> the code and other functions a lot (including undo/redo), but I
> thought I'll ask for an opinion here too.

Agree.