Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:58 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you > find > > yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, > and > > then scrolling to t

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:28 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find > > yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and > > then scrolling to the bottom

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:08 -0400, Greg Vickers wrote: > If I'm feeling exceptionally lazy or have had a > bad day, or am replying in kind to a top poster, I'll just top post The only thing worse than top post and quote everything, is a thread with mixed top and bottom posting. You can't follow

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Art Alexion
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find > yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and > then scrolling to the bottom for *every single reply you type* all I > can > say is tha

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Milan Crha
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:13 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find > yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and > then scrolling to the bottom for *every single reply you type* all I > can say is that it

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread HggdH
> Personally I'd like to see the quoting process a lot more flexible > including different quoting styles, etc. Specifying where the cursor > should start in the composer seems like a subset of that. Maybe this is > something a plugin could do? +1. I find myself every so often changing the se

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 01:24 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:08 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > > 3) select the quote. Why are these or a similar option > > not available in Evolution? > > You can do this, if I understand what you mean. Just select some subset > of the message w

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 15:08 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > 3) select the quote. Why are these or a similar option > not available in Evolution? You can do this, if I understand what you mean. Just select some subset of the message with your mouse before you click "Reply", and only that part of yo

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not >>> ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not > > ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been > > raised before, but I can't fi

Re: [Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not > ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been > raised before, but I can't find any previous discussion of it, just > plenty of complaints abo

[Evolution] Top-posting in Evolution

2008-05-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been raised before, but I can't find any previous discussion of it, just plenty of complaints about top-posters. IMHO there should be an option to locate the text cur