GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 732139
Evolution no longer wraps quoted segments in replies
Last modified: 2015-03-19 13:08:52 UTC
Running Evolution 3.12.3 on Fedora Rawhide, but I noticed this change some time back (don't recall if it was 3.10 or 3.11-3.12). Some people who should be beaten with sticks until death send emails with unwrapped text; it's just one long line. When *displaying* these emails, Evolution (still) wraps those lines to the width of the window or preview pane. But when I *reply* to such an email, it doesn't get wrapped; the entire section of text is displayed on one huge line, I have to scroll horizontally to read it all. I'm fairly sure Evo used to wrap such quoted text at least for display (I'm not sure whether it was actually wrapped in transmission), but it seems not to any more. I can supply an example message if necessary, but if whoever gets this report has access to any emails sent by Bryan Smith (bjs@redhat), they all demonstrate this issue. Just try replying to one.
note: the mails in question are not format=flowed.
Created attachment 279078 [details] screenshot illustrating the issue Here's a screenshot illustrating the issue, using a mail sent to a public list to avoid any privacy issues. On the left, in the main Evo window, you can see the message containing two paragraphs that are just single long lines, wrapped sensibly for display in the preview pane. On the right, you see what I get if I "reply to" that message. It's pretty useless for editing purposes. In practice, when replying to such messages, I have to laboriously select the entire chunk of text and change its style to "Normal" to force Evo to rewrap it. I'm sure it used to do this for me.
Thanks for a bug report. You are right, that's the current behaviour. the paragraph format is set to Preformatted, thus it doesn't wrap in the composer. Select the quoted text and select Normal paragraph and it'll do what you want. A good news is that the behaviour was changed in webkit-composer, thus 3.13.3+ wraps for you by default. Tomas, can we backport the related change (about removal of the <pre/> for quotations) in 3.12.x? If I recall correctly, the change was not related to webkit-composer that much.
(In reply to Milan Crha from comment #3) > Tomas, can we backport the related change (about removal of the <pre/> for > quotations) in 3.12.x? If I recall correctly, the change was not related to > webkit-composer that much. No it is too tight to the WebKit based composer. As the 3.12.x is dead and this works on WebKit based composer (3.16) I'm closing this.