As it sometimes happens that HTML-reply is not very consistent with the original HTML-code, I'd like to switch from replying with HTML to replying by plain text. When I just uncheck "Options -> Formatting (HTML)" the original e-mail is not quoted properly as it is when unchecking "Reply using HTML if present". As "Options -> Formatting (HTML)" is not intended only for replying I guess it wouldn't do to change the behavior of this option. There should still be some easy way to reply to individual e-mails with proper plain-text quotations (or switch to the quotations while replying, but I guess that would be not so easy to implement). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check setting "Reply using HTML if present" 2. Open some HTML-email 3. Reply to it Actual Results: If quoted HTML-code is not of satisfactory and plain-text reply is preferred, the "Reply using HTML if present" setting needs to be unchecked and checked after replying to the e-mail. It's just inconvenient. Expected Results: It would be much easier if there would be a button to reply with plain-text quotation.
Sorry but if we do it we must create the same menu without formatting. => reply to author as plain text -> reply to all as plain text etc. so better to uncheck this option if you don't like reply as html.
Checking and unchecking it for every 2nd e-mail is really-really inconvenient. What about the functionality to switch from HTML-reply to plain-text "inline"? I mean something like unchecking "Options -> Formatting (HTML)", but with adding proper plain-text quotation.
Any thoughts on the 2nd idea? I mean the one about adding plain-text quotation.
We can't do it with current html widget.
in 4.11, there will be a button conveniently located on the composer toolbar that allows toggling between plaintext and richtext. resolving this one.
Is "Options -> Rich Text Editing" somehow different from what was "Options -> Formatting (HTML)"? To my mind it behaves exactly the same.
Actually I've discovered that the only difference now is that I cannot get rid of this option being turned on by default. 1) Uncheck "Reply or forward using HTML if present" 2) Open composer (new, reply or forward) -- "Options -> Rich Text Editing" is turned on 3) Turn "Options -> Rich Text Editing" off 4) Repeat steps 1 and 2 Actual results: "Options -> Rich Text Editing" is turned on again Expected results: "Options -> Rich Text Editing" is turned off (as it was before) BTW, I'm using KMail 4.10.90 currently.
(In reply to comment #7) > Actually I've discovered that the only difference now is that I cannot get > rid of this option being turned on by default. > 1) Uncheck "Reply or forward using HTML if present" > 2) Open composer (new, reply or forward) -- "Options -> Rich Text Editing" > is turned on > 3) Turn "Options -> Rich Text Editing" off > 4) Repeat steps 1 and 2 > > Actual results: "Options -> Rich Text Editing" is turned on again > Expected results: "Options -> Rich Text Editing" is turned off (as it was > before) > > BTW, I'm using KMail 4.10.90 currently. It seems it happens when I use an identity with HTML-enabled signature.
Using KMail 5.19.3 (Debian bookworm/testing), converting from HTML to plain-text adds in a ton of extra linefeeds, to the point that you have to re-format the entire message by hand before you can write your reply to it.