On Sun, 2020-02-02 at 13:31 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > 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.
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