[MlMt] Reply to selection of text

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Wed Nov 27 04:14:21 EST 2013


On 27 Nov 2013, at 9:38, Jeff Holland wrote:

> Benny Kjær Nielsen (26.11.2013) :
>
>> Well, more like a less-than-optimal feature. When you select text in 
>> the message view then MailMate has to “convert” the selected part 
>> of the HTML to plain text. This does not work well for all messages 
>> (depending on the sending email client). When replying without a 
>> selection then MailMate uses the plain text body part which always 
>> works (since the formatting of plain text is, almost, standardized).
>
> So if you were to enable "Prefer plain text" in the Viewer 
> preferences, this situation could be avoided?

Good point. Yes, it's actually still HTML (for display purposes), but if 
MailMate is not even able to parse that then I would consider it a bug.

(You can also use ⌥⌘[ to switch to the plain text body part if 
“Prefer Plain Text” is not enabled.)

-- 
Benny


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