Hi,
when I reply to an e-mail in Kmail I always get these ugly “>” signs at the start of each line.
I have been playing around with the settings, but no matter which one I select or de-select I get those symbols.
How to turn those off completely and forever?
Thanks.
In the KMail settings, choose the “Composer” page → then, the tab “Standard Templates” –
Documentation is here –
<https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kmail/kmail2/configure-composer.html#configure-composer-standard-templates>
Please note that, within a reply to an e-Mail, the “> ” at the beginning of the lines quoting the original received text is a commonly accepted e-Mail convention.
Wikipedia explains the current situation reasonably well – <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style> – section “Quoted line prefix” …
IETF RFC 3676 section 4.5 “Quoting” is quite specific:
In Format=Flowed, the canonical quote indicator (or quote mark) is one or more close angle bracket (“>”) characters. Lines which start with the quote indicator are considered quoted. The number of “>” characters at the start of the line specifies the quote depth. Flowed lines which are also quoted may require special handling on display and when copied to new messages.
Thank you very much. In all those years that I have used Kontact (including Kmail) I have never seen the >-sign on that age. I always only looked at the Composer - General page where it says in a pop-up at:
Use smart quoting
To add the >-sign when replying. I would expect that when I did not tick that box I would not get it, but ticked or not, the >-sign appears.
Now finally it is gone.
Thank you so much for your help.
Thanks @Franken14679 for the info !
I am used to use to copy/paste some text on a replied message. If we follow the link you gave, we have a “>” character that parasites the text i want to copy.
Thunderbird reply use a HTML line like this :
Do you know if this possible in Kmail?
Regards,
In other words, using the ASCII “Vertical Bar” character –
||||
rather than the ASCII “Greater Than” character –
>>>>
Exactly how a HTML formatted e-Mail message will format the ASCII “Vertical Bar” characters is dependent on your settings.
Thanks @Franken14679 for your reply.
I have already tried to change the character to vertical bar (or pipe) but when you copy paste, it takes also the vertical bar. Somehow i would like to be able to copy/paste original text. You can see on my previous message that Thunderbird is putting a continuous vertical bar which is not a caracter but more a HTML bar that indicates level of replies and we can select original text without ASCII quoting characters.
I tested on thunderbird to reply in a Raw Format (no HTML) and it converts the HTML continuous bar with ASCII “Greater Than” character.
So i guess this feature is only available with HTML Format reply but i think this option brings better UX.
Regards,
