[Breezy] "Reply to" fails to quote the message

Not sure if that helps, but I just noticed that when it starts doing it, it does
NOT do it if I FORWARD the message. It only does it if I "Reply" to it, in which
case it does it no matter how I open the reply-to window : menu command, toolbar
icon, right-click on the message, or keyboard short-cut.
If I select/highlight the entire message using the mouse, then "reply to", it
works normally.

*** Bug 18871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

That works fine here now, do you still have this issue?

seems to work correctly now.

Marked as fixed, as per 2 previous comments. Reporter, if you still see the
issue, please reopen the bug.

(In reply to comment #3)
> That works fine here now, do you still have this issue?

Yes. I just ran the update-manager just in case I missed some Evolution related
update, but no.
Problem still there. If I 'copy' whatever text from Gedit or a web page or
whatever app, Evolution will use this text when replying to messages, instead of
quoting the message.
The only thing I can think of, is that I have asked Synaptic to "hold"/not
upgrade a few Xorg packages (as few as possible) as I don't want Xorg to break
my keyboard layout again. Since the problem has to do with copy/paste, and that
X does (does it ???) play a role in this mechanism (whrere did I read this, I
don't know !), maybe this is why the problem is still there ? I intended to
upgrade these Xorg related packages once I would assured that the K/B layout
problem would be fixed. The French K/B is very broken. But BTW Seb, I guess you
use a French layout as well ?? How did you get it working ?? If I do a
dist-upgrade after a Fresh install of Colony #2, in Gnome and X, I lose all
upper case letter, and most punctuation characters.... rendering the keyboard
pretty useless :-/

Vincent, how do you copy (ctrl-c, right click menu and copy item, selection and
middle click)? Do you use the current gnome-control-center package?
Can you describe a simple usecase to get the issue? ie:
* start GNOME and some apps
* select a text with gedit, hit ctrl-C
* alt-tab to evolution
* click on the reply button

What I just described works fine.

For xorg, it's known to have xkb issues for some time, I've not tried to update
it for some days ...

(In reply to comment #7)
> Vincent, how do you copy (ctrl-c, right click menu and copy item, selection and
> middle click)? Do you use the current gnome-control-center package?
> Can you describe a simple usecase to get the issue? ie:
> * start GNOME and some apps
> * select a text with gedit, hit ctrl-C
> * alt-tab to evolution
> * click on the reply button
>
> What I just described works fine.

Sadly as I said in the initial report, I can't find any pattern/way to reproduce
the problem. It happens at random, no matter if I use Control+C or right-click
or Control+Insert (which is what I use most), and no matter what application the
text has been 'copied' from. The only thing that is sure, is that once it has
done it once, it will not stop doing it, until I close Evolution, and things
will be back to normal once Evolution is re-started. I guess I could use 'trace'
to see what's going on when I hit 'reply', but it would probably result in a
50MB log file...too much to be useful :o(

> For xorg, it's known to have xkb issues for some time, I've not tried to
update it for some days ...

Fair enough ! I shall do the same then, and just wait for the next Colony CD,
which I guess Colin will release as soon as Xorg has settled a bit...

That is fixed with 2.3.7

A year later, I still have the problem, every now and then, randomly, can't see a pattern to it.
I have given up on it as it can be worked around, but I prefer to change the status anyway, to reflect reality...

are you sure you don't have some text selected when that happens? It quotes the message only if you make no selection

> are you sure you don't have some text selected when that happens?

Nope. I am sure of that, because if I select text in a message then reply to the message, evolution quotes only the selected text rather than the whole message (which is a nice feature).

It's easy to do a "fake selection", click somewhere to the preview where there is no text, dnd from some pixel like if you were selecting, there is nothing visible but reply will quote nothing ... is that what is happening to you?

seb, that's what happens to me. basically only way around it for me, is that I have to select a new message, then go back to the original one.

very annoying.

Thanks Seb !! Using your "false selection " trick, I can reproduce the bug at will ! :-)
So now I know how to avoid it, and if it hits me, I know how to fix it: just click anywhere in the message, making sure I don't drag the mouse at the same time, before replying to the message.

Now that I know what's happening, it won't drive me nuts anymore :-)

But it should be easy to fix then, no ? I mean, Evolution should quote the "selected" text, only if the text in question makes sense, for example if it contains at least one "visible" character (not a carraige return or space or nothing at all) ? And if the text doesn't make sense, then quote the entire message ?

upstream bug about that: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330175

Vincent, the bug is sort of confusing. When you have no visible selection, do you get the clipboard copy as described on the first description or only no text quoted?

> upstream bug about that:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330175
> Vincent, the bug is sort of confusing.

No need to be confused : the bug you mentionned above is e-xac-tly what I am experiencing... I have nothing more to add :-)
Let's just watch this upstream bug then, and see what they decide...

> When you have no visible selection, do you get the clipboard copy
> as described on the first description or only no text quoted?

A picture being worth a thousand words, see attached...

Why are comments mandatory...

already, that's the same as described by upstream, maybe the new comment will make them react on it

The bug has been fixed upstream now