[MlMt] Reply to selection of text

[Jacques]

On 26 Nov 2013, at 14:37, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 26 Nov 2013, at 19:00, Jacques wrote:
>
>> I'm using Markdown to reply to emails sent to me from Mountain Lion 
>> Mail.app. When I simply reply, paragraphs and lists are being 
>> preserved usually.
>>
>> However, when I select a few paragraphs that includes a list of 
>> questions to me - all paragraph breaks and returns are being ignored.
>>
>> Is this an already known bug?
>
> 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).

It worked much better!

There were two paragraphs, a list of a few things denoted by the number 
with a ) symbol afterwards then one more paragraph. Oddly, some of it 
interpreted to MM as indenting to a separate thread.

Do you need me to forward you the email to take a look to see why it 
interpreted this way?

-
Jacques
via Mac