On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 20:51 -0700, jd wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan <p...@usb.ve>
> To: evolution-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Double clicking on text in message does not
> copy to clipboard
> Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 22:50:51 -0430
> 
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:45 -0700, JD wrote:
> > 
> > On 05/06/2010 07:36 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:23 -0700, jd wrote:
> > >    
> > >> I triple clicked on the url in the message
> > >> and it still will not highlight.
> > >>      
> > > What do you expect to happen with a triple-click? A single click should
> > > fire up a browser page. A triple-click will select an entire line. I
> > > doubt that it's possible to triple-click a URL without the firtst click
> > > being interpreted.
> > >
> > > poc
> > >
> > >    
> > Well, a single click should have fired the browser!!!
> > But as I said, it (the link) though fully well formattted,
> > i.e. http://www....etc/....etc.html  ,
> > it does not display as it would in a browser: i.e. it is
> > neither underlined, nor of a colour different from the rest
> > of the message (usually, blue).
> > 
> > A double click should high-light the word, a tripple click
> > should highlight the whole line.
> > 
> > On this particular message, clicking to high light does not work.
> > I have to click-hold-drag the pointer in order to copy to clipboard.
> > Weird!
> 
> Is it specific to this message or does it always happen? Also, is the
> message in HTML or plain text?
> 
> poc
> 
> 
> 
> It happens only to this message. 
> Message appears to be in plain text,
> but it also appears to be boxed in
> a block of white background, and rest
> of message display is in light bluish grey
> which is the normal "skin" color of Evo.

That means it's HTML pretending to be plain. Possibly there's something
wierd about the encoding. You can look at the actual text via Ctrl-U.

poc

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