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Bug 788464 - Pasting as citation with Ctrl + Shift + v doesn’t work
Pasting as citation with Ctrl + Shift + v doesn’t work
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 785650
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Composer
3.26.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-10-03 11:28 UTC by Paul Menzel
Modified: 2017-10-03 15:53 UTC
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Description Paul Menzel 2017-10-03 11:28:10 UTC 
Using Evolution 3.26.1 pasting as citation with Ctrl + Shift + v is broken again. Using the middle mouse button and the shift key still works.
Comment 1 Milan Crha 2017-10-03 13:33:19 UTC 
Thanks for a bug report. Could it be due to the change of the short-cut, as it's Ctrl+Alt+V since bug #785650?
Comment 2 Paul Menzel 2017-10-03 15:23:08 UTC 
(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #1)
> Thanks for a bug report. Could it be due to the change of the short-cut, as
> it's Ctrl+Alt+V since bug #785650?

You are right. I never need *paste as text* as I am composing plain text messages as everybody should do by default. Ctrl + Alt + v is much harder than Ctrl + Shift + v. But I understand, that it’s a good idea to be compatible with other programs.

This shows, that a way is needed to inform the user about changes. Either, when Evolution is *updated* and an account exists, when the combination is pressed the first time a notification is shown about that change. Or, the user is asked if they want to switch, when starting Evolution the first time after an update.

I’ll close this report as *invalid*.
Comment 3 Milan Crha 2017-10-03 15:53:21 UTC 
Luckily such changes do not happen that often.

You might be eventually able to change the short cut from Evolution GUI with gtk+, but I never made it to work, thus I cannot help, I'm sorry. The only thing I managed to get to work is to close evolution, then edit:
   ~/.config/evolution/accels
and change corresponding lines to:
   (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/core-editor/paste-quote" "<Primary><Shift>v")
   (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/html/paste-as-text" "<Primary><Alt>v")
I had both commented (with leading ';') and with reversed accelerator (search for paste-quote and paste-as-text in the file). It's important to do the change when evolution is not running, because the file is overwritten on close (with current accelerator settings).

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of the bug where the change had been done, for statistical reason (kind of).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 785650 ***