On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 22:24, Frank Gore wrote: > Over the past few months, I've slowly come to the realization that maybe > Evolution isn't the ideal tool for my purposes. Perhaps someone here can > convince me otherwise by pointing out what I'm doing wrong. > >... > No matter how hard I try, I can't seem to ever be able to copy and paste > things out of displayed emails in evolution (what some people call the > "preview pane"). I've tried everything I could think of, but it never > works. Shift-Delete, Ctrl-C, even Edit/Copy from the menu. None of it > ever manages to copy anything. The only way I can ever get it to copy or > cut text is if I hit Reply and copy the text out of the email editor. > This is a HUGE drawback when I'm doing order tracking and need to > quickly copy UPS tracking numbers into a spreadsheet or the browser. > There's no way I'm gonna type hundreds of tracking numbers by hand > everyday. And having to hit Reply to every email before I can copy text > out of it is a pain. This has plagued me ever since the first 1.0 > release of Evolution. What am I doing wrong? Am I the only one with this > problem? >
I can't help you with the others, but as for copy/paste, what happens when you just select to copy and middle-click to paste? (the standard unix way.) I'm sure Ctrl-c and edit/copy should both work, but selecting text in X11 should *always* copy it. --Ben
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