Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Consider the message: > > is "hello world" prepared > > for release? > yes it is. Now, I select and copy this part: > > is "hello world" |prepared > > for| release? > yes it is. I will get: prepared > > for It would be great if KMail could recognize quotation marks and remove then on the fly -- in wrapped, single line select (not when you selecting multiple lines).
Yeah
Except that in your example you select two lines, unless I read your message wrong. Anyway the issue would be how to recognize what are quotation marks and what are quotation characters that are part of the message. As I see it the only way to be sure would be to make sure that the quotation marks are inside a <span class="quotation"></span> construct of some sort, but this will enlarge the message and introduce one more source of potential parsing errors. Is it worth the risk?
Single line -- well, it was single line before KMail wrapped it. About the "risk". Computers are made for doing automatic tasks. When I see task which is essentially deleting characters one by one, over and over, it is an automated task. So it should be done by computer, not by human -- we (humans) should spent time on higher level issues. And about removing quotation marks -- I am not saying it is trivial, but it is not rocket science either. First draft could be -- take the non-alphanumeric common prefix of line of begin of selection and each other. Remove the prefix in copied content. Un-wrap lines. In next iteration of the algorithm it could be enhanced to handle multiple lines.
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