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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
