GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 335985
selective quoting uses "Normal" paragraph style
Last modified: 2017-02-09 13:35:16 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.
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.
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.