Re: [Evolution] Editor woes

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 07:41 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-01-27 at 09:20 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2020-01-26 at 17:46 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > Is there anything to be done about the built in text editor.  It
> > > oftendeletes more than is highlighted...
> >
> > I've never seen this, but I wonder if it's affected by your
> > currenttheme or font (including size).
>
> Judging by your reply, you probably send messages in plain text;

Of course. I also prefer receiving them in plain text.

> I
> never see these problems when composing messages in plain text.  I
> prefer to use HTML since the formatting is more elegant; but I may
> change.

Evolution permits a certain amount of formatting without using HTML.
This is called Rich Text.

Lists:
 * One
 * Two
   1. Two dot one
   2. Two dot two

Indented paragraphs:
   Like this
      And this
   And this

Right-justified:
                                             Like this line for example
                             And centered

Plus of course the Preformatted option which just puts in whatever you type or paste from a copy buffer 
without trimming lines.

I find these pretty much cover anything I need to do.

poc