[MlMt] Quoted text weirdness

Benny Kjær Nielsen mailinglist at freron.com
Mon Oct 3 08:13:51 EDT 2016


On 28 Sep 2016, at 15:43, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:

> Some issues:
>
> 1. Often a spurious blank line is inserted at the end of the quoted 
> text. (For example if I reply to a plaintext message with a quotation 
> in it at the end.)
> 2. Quoted text will lose internal blank lines.
> 3. In a non-plaintext message, quoting already quoted text won’t 
> work and all the originally quoted text loses its line breaks and 
> doesn’t get “double-quoted”.
>
> I could probably come up with some example, but I’m curious whether 
> others see this.

This is a general issue. MailMate is not particularly clever when it 
comes to interpreting the selected text when this is used to 
reply/forward an email. It could certainly be better, but it's not 
currently a high priority item.

-- 
Benny


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