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Rapidly quote email text in Evolution |
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Written by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
When an email is received, it will most likely be replied to. In
many cases, people simply hit the "Reply" button, typing out their
reply above the previous message. On occassion, replying in this
manner can be a bad idea. For example, the reply might only
pertain to a certain part of the original message. In such cases,
many people edit the reply so that their response follows after the
bits of the original message. The result is a close approximation
of how humans talk to each other in person.
This is all well and dandy, but editing the original message can be a
pain if you're only interested in replying to one small part of a long
email. This becomes even more of a pain if you subscribe to
mailing lists. Instead of deleting the uneeded message content, people
quote the entire email and end up doing the unthinkable: top posting
(replying at the top of an email), a major no-no on some mailing
lists.
Not to worry: Evolution can help you speed up the reply by
eliminating the editing step all together.
First, a couple of
assumptions:
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I've configured Evolution to display a preview pane. For this tip to work, you'll need to do the same.
- I'm working with Evolution 2.04. I suspect this tip works in
previous and newer versions, but I can't be sure. Try it out and
let me know!
Here's how you can quickly quote a specific part of an email for your reply, without manually editing it:
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Left click on the email you want to display in the Preview Pane.
- Using your mouse, in the Preview Pane, highlight the email text you want to quote and include in your reply.
- Left click the Reply button.
Evolution will open a "reply" message window.
In it you will see that only the text you highlighted in step 2 has been quoted in your reply.
- Type your reply to the email.
- Left click the Send button.
That's it! It doesn't seem like much, but it's a great little time
saver for those messages where manually editing the quote is not worth
the time and effort.
Now, isn't that handy? |
