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Bug 335985 - selective quoting uses "Normal" paragraph style
selective quoting uses "Normal" paragraph style
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GtkHtml
Classification: Other
Component: Editing
3.10.x
Other All
: High normal
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Assigned To: gtkhtml-maintainers
gtkhtml-maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-25 18:03 UTC by Jesse Keating
Modified: 2017-02-09 13:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14



Description Jesse Keating 2006-03-25 18:03:28 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When using the select-quote feature, highlight a section of an email and hit
reply to quote just that section, the quoted text will have a lot of new
endlines that weren't in the source email.  This leads to very ugly replies.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select section of text
2. click reply
3. barf at the new endlines all over the place


Actual results:


Expected results:
Text should be treated as preformatted when select quoting.

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
A (lame) workaround is to rehighlight the text and select 'preformat' from the
dropdown.
Comment 1 Karsten Bräckelmann 2006-03-25 19:35:16 UTC
Confirming. Adjusting Summary.

When selectively replying (by highlighting text to quote before replying), the quoted text is set to paragraph style "Normal". This is broken.

The quoted text *must* be paragraph style "Preformat" by default in the very same cases where "Preformat" is used for simply replying to the entire message, without selectively highlighting text.


Note: Just as like a simple reply, the actual format depends on the format of the original mail. Paragraph style "Normal" is correct for example when replying to text/html mails.


Adjusting Product, this is the Composer (GtkHTML). Usability issue, raising Priority.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-02-09 13:35:16 UTC
GtkHtml is not under active development anymore. 
Evolution (its main consumer) switched to a WebKit backend a while ago. 
It is currently unlikely that there will be any further GtkHtml development.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping (bug 778387) to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.