<div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2012 12:27, Martin wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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On 16/07/12 12:13, Mike Cardwell wrote:<br>
> On 16/07/12 11:56, Martin wrote:<br>
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>> As demonstrated with this reply from Thunderbird: Select a section<br>
>> of text, hit "reply", and you get a reply window with just that<br>
>> selected text quoted. Far faster than chopping a full sized quote<br>
>> down to size.<br>
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> I really hate that about Thunderbird. I hardly ever use that "feature"<br>
> on purpose. It mostly happens when I've selected some text to copy and<br>
> paste it out of an email before hitting reply. I then have to close<br>
> the compose window, deselect the text and then hit reply a second time.<br>
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> I didn't realise what was going on the first couple of times it<br>
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That's pretty much how I 'discovered' it.<br>
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Unless you are aware of it, it is irksome in that it forces you to work<br>
in a certain way (an extra click needed to deselect if you want the 'old<br>
way').<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think I first came across this behaviour in the early Demon Internnet email client, WInDIS, back when I first had internet connection at home - 1994-ish? Then it was natural to find it in KMail - part of KDE - when I first used KDE as part of Mandrake Linux about 9/10 years ago. (Martin, you helped me install it!) </div>
<div><br></div><div>So this *is* the old way of doing it, as far as I'm concerned!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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And there's far far too much "hidden" knowledge needed to usefully use<br>
most GUIs... And often all quirky different...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah..... and one of my pet peeves is the lack of usable documentation for most FOSS applications, which has gradually spread to be most FOSS-or-not applications.... But that's a whole other diet of worms....</div>
<div><br></div><div>David Aldred</div></div>