Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-11 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday, 11 October 2018 10:45:39 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Even though you've reverted to KMail, can't you leave Thunderbird > installed to dabble with, without it being an annoyance because it's > your only MUA? Meanwhile, consider > https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/thunderbird as a place t

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > That's a lot of faffing around, which might have to be repeated if I > have to re-install the package. I can't recall the last time I had to reinstall a package on Arch, Debian, or Ubuntu. It feels like a `turn it off and on again'. But if you do have to, then keep a ~/hints/thunder

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 07:23:03 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > So you guys who don't use Thunderbird are seeing '>' chars at the > beginning of the quoted text above? Yep. -- Linux Tips: https://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/category/techtips/ -- Next meeting at *new* venue: Bournemouth,

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday, 10 October 2018 17:42:22 BST PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > I found this, but it doesn't tell me how to do it: > > "When displaying quoted plain text messages > > Quoted text in a message is text that is being replied to, and is > usually set off from the left margin by t

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Tim
On 10/10/18 14:29, Terry Coles wrote: Peter, You've misunderstood.  By in-line replies, I mean that the text that I type can be interleaved with the text of the original message, not only at the top or the end as this is. On 10/10/18 14:25, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: On 10/10/18 13:52

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 10/10/18 16:03, Terry Coles wrote: On 10/10/18 15:51, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: I can do it, no problem. I don't know why yours might be different. I have to keep typing to see if  my response is single or double lines - Ahh  Single spacing. I don't know why it didn't work before.  It

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Terry Coles
On 10/10/18 15:51, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: I can do it, no problem. I don't know why yours might be different. I have to keep typing to see if  my response is single or double lines - Ahh  Single spacing. I don't know why it didn't work before.  It wasn't the typing that was the problem

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 10/10/18 14:48, Terry Coles wrote: On 10/10/18 13:52, Terry Coles wrote: Is there a simple way to write in-line replies in Thunderbird? Clive has replied off list and I've managed to do it with this message, but I aren't too happy about the way Thunderbird does this.  When I tried to reply

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Terry Coles
On 10/10/18 13:52, Terry Coles wrote: Is there a simple way to write in-line replies in Thunderbird? Clive has replied off list and I've managed to do it with this message, but I aren't too happy about the way Thunderbird does this.  When I tried to reply to Ralph's original response, I ended u

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread Terry Coles
Peter, You've misunderstood.  By in-line replies, I mean that the text that I type can be interleaved with the text of the original message, not only at the top or the end as this is. On 10/10/18 14:25, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: On 10/10/18 13:52, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I still cann

Re: [Dorset] In-line Replies in Thunderbird

2018-10-10 Thread PeterMerchant via dorset
On 10/10/18 13:52, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, I still cannot see my sub-sub-folders, but in the meantime I also cannot find a simple way to respond to messages with my text in-line and not 'top-posted'. A search of the Internet seemed to indicate that an Add-on called 'Thunderbird Conversations