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Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / March 2006Quote copying
My Eudora is set with the continuous line down the left side to signify quoted material, which is fine, but if I want to copy an email in that form to a word processor, it fails to carry any indication across as to what is quoted and what isn't. Is there some way to do that? I thought maybe changing the continuous line to a > character might do the trick, but I can't see anywhere to make than an option. I need to copy a bunch of emails to one single file, and although I can do that, I lose that formatting, which makes the file all but useless. That's what the problem is. The solution is probably staring me in the face, but no lightbulbs are going on! Rifty  SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > My Eudora is set with the continuous line down the left side to signify > quoted material, which is fine, but if I want to copy an email in that [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > That's what the problem is. The solution is probably staring me in the > face, but no lightbulbs are going on! That is strange. I found that if you click on the 'blah-blah' button in the toolbar at the top of a message window, then the "format-flowed" bar turns into ">" and then copying and pasting gives you the quoted material as you wanted. You can also turn off the format=flowed behavior using <x-eudora-setting:260> These settings control when Eudora will interpret or generate format=flowed. Set to 1 to turn off completely. SignatureJim Meiss <http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/jdm> > > My Eudora is set with the continuous line down the left side to signify > > quoted material, which is fine, but if I want to copy an email in that [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > turns into ">" and then copying and pasting gives you the quoted > material as you wanted. Thanks for your reply. When I turn on that button, it shows me all the formatting and hidden data, which can be very useful at times but doesn't simply turn off the bar. Nor does it change the bar to a >. This may depend upon the formatting used by the sender of the email. Even if it did, it wouldn't allow me to select a group of emails with the button on and make them into one file with the formatting as required. > You can also turn off the format=flowed behavior using > <x-eudora-setting:260> These settings control when Eudora will interpret > or generate format=flowed. Set to 1 to turn off completely. This is probably what I want for this purpose, but when I go to the Settings area of Eudora I don't see X-Settings. When I used to have Supersleek, there were easily available. I seem to remember there's some trick with GetInfo and Plugins on Eudora to reveal them, but I can't find it there. (Eudora 6.2.3, Paid mode) OSX.4.5. [Feeling silly... this shouldn't be this hard!] Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net [...] > > > I need to copy a bunch of emails to one single file, and although I can > > > do that, I lose that formatting [...] [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > formatting and hidden data, which can be very useful at times but > doesn't simply turn off the bar. Nor does it change the bar to a >. Sounds like the mail was sent as 'HTML' mail then, not as f=f. [...] > when I go to the > Settings area of Eudora I don't see X-Settings. Correct. x-eudora-settings are a different mechanism to access the settings, *all* settings. See <http://eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2116hq.html>. > When I used to have > Supersleek, there were easily available. No. While there are several plug-ins, like SuperSleek, that give GUI access to some extra setting, none (that I'm aware of) give access to all of them. (Regardless, "x-eudora-settings" refers to a *mechanism* to access settings, not to specific settings.) > I seem to remember there's some > trick with GetInfo and Plugins on Eudora to reveal them Select the Eudora application file in the Finder, hit Cmd-i, In the resulting "Eudora Info" window's Plug-ins section turn installed plug-ins on/off. Eudora shouldn't be running when you do this. Plug-ins can be installed in a few places: - /Applications/Eudora\ Application\ Folder/Eudora.app/Contents/PlugIns/ - ~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Eudora Items/Plugins/ - I vaguely recall there's a third one...? Maybe /Applications/Eudora\ Application\ Folder/Eudora.app/Contents/MacOS/Eudora\ Stuff/ But that would be a legacy thing. Probably shouldn't be used anymore. SignatureSander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/> Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!" PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!" > > Thanks for your reply. When I turn on that button, it shows me all the > > formatting and hidden data, which can be very useful at times but > > doesn't simply turn off the bar. Nor does it change the bar to a >. > > Sounds like the mail was sent as 'HTML' mail then, not as f=f. Definitely. > [...] > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > all of them. (Regardless, "x-eudora-settings" refers to a *mechanism* to > access settings, not to specific settings.) Thanks for clarifying that. It's somewhat arcane to me but I see what you mean! > > I seem to remember there's some > > trick with GetInfo and Plugins on Eudora to reveal them > > Select the Eudora application file in the Finder, hit Cmd-i, In the > resulting "Eudora Info" window's Plug-ins section turn installed > plug-ins on/off. Eudora shouldn't be running when you do this. Thanks yes - I had checked that out. The tech support page you provided the URL for is what I was looking for. Thanks for that! Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > You can also turn off the format=flowed behavior using > <x-eudora-setting:260> These settings control when Eudora will interpret > or generate format=flowed. Set to 1 to turn off completely. I did that but it seems to make no difference. The bar still remains. I think I must be missing something basic. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > I did that but it seems to make no difference. The bar still remains. I > think I must be missing something basic. I suspect that those are generated in HTML with a quote tag. SignaturePeter In article <1hbuuga.13f5jngbfn4ksN%rifty@tpg.com.au>, rifty@tpg.com.au (Rifty) wrote: > My Eudora is set with the continuous line down the left side to signify > quoted material, which is fine, but if I want to copy an email in that > form to a word processor, it fails to carry any indication across as to > what is quoted and what isn't. Is there some way to do that? What I use is <x-eudora-setting:283> When replying to messages, nuke all styles and hard wrap. ICK!!!! Don't do this!!!! So whenever I reply to anything, all quoted material gets traditionally quoted with ">" as opposed to the excerpt bar. Then I can easily copy/paste that wherever I need. If you're copying/pasting within Eudora, I copy the styled text, then use cmd-option-shift-v to paste as a quotation without styles. SignatureJulian Y. Koh <mailto:kohster@northwestern.edu> Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bunnytoaster.nsg.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> > What I use is > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > quoted with ">" as opposed to the excerpt bar. Then I can easily copy/paste > that wherever I need. Sorry - I don't understand the process you're describing. If I go to x-eudora-setting:283 I get your message above, but it asks for a new setting. I'm not sure what you do at this point. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > If I go to > x-eudora-setting:283 I get your message above, but it asks for a new > setting. I'm not sure what you do at this point. You need to set the value to "y". SignatureJulian Y. Koh <mailto:kohster@northwestern.edu> Network Engineer <phone:847-467-5780> Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:<http://bunnytoaster.nsg.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html> > You need to set the value to "y". Hey, that's it! Just what I wanted. Thanks. Rifty SignatureAcademic and Computing Help http://rifty.net > My Eudora is set with the continuous line down the left side to signify > quoted material, which is fine, but if I want to copy an email in that [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Rifty What I usually do, is choose "Wrap Selection" (text has to be selected beforehand) in the Edit menu. Hope that might help you. Esben |
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