Evolution strangeness.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:28 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Has this happened to anyone else? When using evolution to send mail on
> occasion whole sections of text get stuck together as a block. If I
> change a word in the block the whole rest of the message disappears.
> 
> Typing it again from the place after the text disappears does not help
> since that again causes the changing of a word make the rest of the text
> disappear. It happened in this message I am sending.
> 
> Can anyone explain this?
> 
> The word change can by typing it again or through spell checking.
> -- 
> Aaron Konstam <Konstam
> 

It's a known problem.
Evolution uses gtkhtml for message editing and, sadly enough, gtkhtml is
a semi-dead project (Last release was ~ 2 years ago)
There is talk about replacing it with mozilla's display/edit engine, but
AFAIK, it won't be ready any time soon.

Gilboa