From kmail-devel  Wed Jan 31 21:46:28 2001
From: Richard Bos <allabos () freeler ! nl>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 21:46:28 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: selecting mail for reply
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I would like to see it as follows;

no dialogue box at all, just copy the text and have an option under the edit 
menu (or on the toolbar) with "paste quoted" just under "paste".  I liked to 
use this a lot in my previous mailer.


-- 
Richard Bos
For those who have no (/)home the journey is endless


On Wednesday 31 January 2001 16:48, Seth Chaiklin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Some time ago, a message fragment showed up as part of a bug report
> I made about a printing problem.  I searched the "bugs" database without
> being able to find anymore of the conversation, but I would like to add a
> humble opinion.
>
> The issue is being able to (a) select part of a message with the cursor,
> and (b) upon hitting reply, only the selected part of the message gets
> carried over to Composer.
>
> Michael Häckel did not see the need/value of such a feature. Which is fair
> enough.  But maybe he has never had experience with such a feature, so I
> thought I would tell my own experience, which comes from using later
> versions of Pegasus under MS-Windows.
>
> In Pegasus, when one hits "reply" a dialog box comes up with a number
> of checkboxes, where most are in a persistent state.
>
> 1.  One section of the dialog is to decide whether one wants to include the
> message in the reply or not.
>
> 2.  A second section allows one to toggle the standard "In reply to...."
> message.
>
> 3.   A third section allows one to choose which header fields should be
> used to get the address (and where it makes an intelligent guess for you). 
> When a message has a to: from: cc: and Reply-To:, it is nice to be select
> the fields, instead of "reply-all" and then edit.
>
> Finally, if part of a message is selected and one hits "reply", then a
> dialog box asks if it should be the selected part or the whole message (to
> avoid situations where a piece was selected, but not intended).
>
> Is it useful?  Well...I miss it....
>
> 1. Many times one gets a message with 20 lines, but wants to respond to
> only 3 lines in the middle of the message.  It is a pleasure to be able to
> select those lines (or more precisely, 2 sentences), and then hit reply to
> only have that piece of text in the messages immediately available in the
> message.
>
> 2. Sometimes, especially with more personal letters, it is nice to be able
> to toggle off "On September, FirstName LastName, wrote..."
>
> 3. Sometimes one uses old messages as a way to get someone´s address, and
> one uses a reply, so it nice to not have to delete the entire message.
> Also, as things stand now, I could not see any way to configure Kmail to
> suppress including having the entire original message in the reply.
>
> Anyway.....I was not trying to start a dialogue, or a fight, or make a
> complaint....but now that the freeze seems to have created a little
> breathing room here...and several potential developers have suddenly
> appeared...I thought that I would take a chance and see whether this trial
> balloon has helium or lead. (-:
>
> Cheers,
>    Seth
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