Re: Evolution strangeness.

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 17:34 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:52 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > > > Has this happened to anyone else? When using evolution to send mail on
> > > > occasion whole sections of text get stuck together as a block. If I
> > > > change a word in the block the whole rest of the message disappears.
> > > > 
> > > > Typing it again from the place after the text disappears does not help
> > > > since that again causes the changing of a word make the rest of the text
> > > > disappear. It happened in this message I am sending.
> > > > 
> > > > Can anyone explain this?
> > > > 
> > > > The word change can by typing it again or through spell checking.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I remember coming across a similar thing myself - IIRC text was being
> > > put into some HTML container that would disappear if any part of it
> > > was deleted or changed. Have you tried changing the message to
> > > plaintext?
> > > 
> > > Chris 
> > Well the three options seem to be 1. show html if present 2. Prefer
> > Plain text 3. Only plain text.
> > 
> > I had it on option 1. I now changed it to option 2. We will see if that
> > helps.
> 
> I think those are options for viewing messages. You need the ones for
> composing a new message - or you can change the format of the current
> message you are creating.
> 
The format of message creation is Text. So that is not the problem.
There must be some other configuration at work.

I think this is a laptop problem. My big fingers hit strange keys on the
laptop keyboard.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>