It's because evolution seems to think by default that pasted text should be quoted. You can get around that pretty easily, just go to Edit -> Paste instead of doing a X paste if I remember correctly.
~David On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 16:09, Seth Williamson wrote: > Can somebody explain why--when you have to paste in a big chunk of > copied text to the editing area of a letter in Evolution, that it has > that big bar down the side and the cursor acts funny? Sort of like > you're dealing with some kind of weird HTML formatting or something? It > is really my only complaint with Evolution. Every now and then I have > to paste in a big chunk of text to a letter I'm sending, and if I have > to edit it, this odd behavior makes the editing very difficult. Any way > to avoid this problem? > > Seth Williamson > Daleville, VA > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution