[MlMt] Quoted text weirdness

[John D. Muccigrosso]

On 3 Oct 2016, at 8:13, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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.

I hope it becomes one. I reply to messages multiple times a day and get 
caught by this repeatedly.

John