Hi Pete, hi Xav, I investigated the source of the email further and saw that it ships both, a plain text and an HTML version. The HTML version consists of one big table. This might be the source of the problem.
What indeed worked for me is to highlight the whole email with the mouse. (Do not use Edit – Mark the whole text (words could be wrong since I use the German locale).) Then I press answer and I can easily use the whole text of the old email and fill in my answers :-). Thanks for all your help, Simon Am Donnerstag, den 12.05.2011, 10:45 +0200 schrieb Xavier Bestel: > On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:15 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > > > For some emails this does not work though. When I go in the cited text > > > of such an email and press Enter, the inserted line has still the “>” at > > > the beginning. And I cannot delete this symbol. (When I press the > > > backspace key, the line break is deleted.) > > > > If the original email is HTML formatted then this sort of thing happens > > - and more specifically it's to do with the table and div structure. > > Basically if the text is part of a table or a div container, then when > > you add text to it, the HTML interpreter of the editor still thinks the > > text you've added is part of that container and so puts a quote marker > > in front. > > > > The annoying thing is that this still happens even if you aren't > > replying using HTML. > > > > > > > > What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I get around it? > > > > > > > The underlying reason for it is that the editor is "sub-optimal" - I > > think there have been long term plans to replace it, but I don't know > > how far that is advanced. > > > > As a work around you can highlight the text that you want to reply to in > > the original email, then hit reply. This will only copy the text > > without the underlying HTML formatting. > > You can also select the quoted text, and press the "Indents the > paragraph less" button (on my old Evo, it's the 3rd button from the > right, on the lower button bar (see attached screenshot). > No guarantees though :) > > Xav > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
