Hi Milan,
> Hello,
>for the background: WebKitGTK+ deprecated C DOM API few releases back,
>thus I'm slowly changing the code to use JavaScript Core API instead.
>The preview panel is done for the upcoming 3.36.0 and I'm slowly
>fighting with the editor part. There will be some functionality dropped
>and some (I hope good) added. I'd like to depend on WebKitGTK+'s
>functionality as much as possible, which has its pros and cons.
>My current query is:
>Is editing of quoted text in the Plain Text mode used?
yes, I use it always, because I only use plain text whenever possible.
>What do you expect from it?
Nothing special - correct line breaks perhaps.
>Tomas Popela (continued the work started by Dan Vratil) did a great job
>in preserving the behavior as close as possible to what users were used
>to from times of GtkHTML, where editing text in quotation kept the
>quote character ('>') at the beginning of the line when the paragraph
>text had been changing. That's fairly complex code to maintain, thus
>I'm thinking of dropping it, instead of rewriting it in JavaScript.
Uh, that would be a real bad loss 8-<
>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 could live with it, but it would make things much less comfortable.
>I checked some other GUI editors what they do with quoted text in the
>Plain Text mode and this is what I found:
> * Thunderbird (68.4.1) - does nothing when editing it, only
> re-wrapping function can fix/add quote character;
> * SeaMonkey (2.49.5) - works pretty much the same as Thunderbird;
> * KMail (5.11.3) - does nothing when editing; has in Edit menu
> "Add/Remove Quote Character";
> * Claws Mail (3.17.4) - keeps quoted text quoted while typing new text
> (when long lines are wrapped), but not when deleting quoted text.
You shouldn't use bad examples ;)
>That is, none of the above work any similarly as the current Evolution
>in this regard.
That is one of the big advantages of Evolution.
>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 probably get
>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.
As I said, one can get used to it - but it is a loss!
>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.
> Bye,
> Milan
Bye.
Michael.
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Michael Hirmke
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