Betalogue

Apparently, a bit of work has been going on under the hood at Apple’s Mail application department, especially when it comes to editing plain text messages. (Mail uses rich text, i.e. HTML, by default, but I still prefer plain text for most e-mail messages, and a lot of other e-mail users agree with me that plain text is preferable.)

A number of bugs have been fixed, including this one, which I first reported in early 2008, about mangled quote levels when editing a reply in plain text.

It used to be that deleting a block of text with a certain quote level would cause the quote level of the first line of the next block of text to change. Not anymore. Here’s an example of a text selection that would cause problems in Mail 3.x:

In Mail 3.x, deleting this selection would cause Mail to change the quote level of the text that immediately followed. Not anymore:

It took a while to get Apple to fix this, but finally it is fixed, and plain text e-mail users can rejoice. (Not too much, though: Mail 4.0 does introduce new bugs. More on them later.)

This entry was posted by Pierre Igot on Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm and is filed under Mail. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.