The message composition window has its own set of menus: File, which controls operations on files and data, Edit, for text editing, Format, which controls the file format of messages you send, View, to set how you view the message, and Insert, which holds tools for embedding files and other items in messages. Here's what's in them:
Open a text file or a draft mail message.
Save a mail message as a text file.
Choose a file name and location for a message you want to save as a text file.
Save a message as a draft, rather than as a separate text file.
Open a text file and insert it into the current message. (FIXME: belongs under "Insert").
Sends the message immediately.
Queue
Closes the message composer. If you have not done so, Evolution will ask you if you want to save your message.
The Edit menu in the message composer contains the following items. Keyboard shortcuts are listed next to the items in the menus themselves.
Undoes the last action you performed.
If you change your mind about Undoing something, you can always use this item.
Removes the selected text from the text entry window and retains it in the system "clipboard" memory, ready for pasting.
Copies selected text to the system clipboard without deleting it. The text can then be inserted elsewhere with the Paste command.
Inserts the contents of the system clipboard at the location of the cursor.
Enter a phrase and find your match in your message body. As with Find Regex, Find Again, and Replace, Evolution will offer you the option to search forwards or backwards.
If you are familiar with regular expressions, often called "regexes," you can search for something more complicated, using wildcards and boolean logic.
Repeats your last search.
Enter a word or phrase and the word or phrase with which you'd like to replace it.
This item brings up the Message Composer Properties Capplet, a portion of the GNOME Control Center that determines the key bindings for the message composer. Help for this capplet is available directly from the Control Center. (FIXME: Write that help doc too) (FIXME: this is in the wrong place!)
The Format menu has only one item:
Toggles HTML mode for the message composer. When selected, the message is displayed and sent in HTML. If you have written a message in HTML and turn HTML off, most formatting will be lost. Evolution will attempt to preserve spacing and to remove formatting gracefully, however.
The View menu controls the way messages are displayed, and how much of the message, its headers, and attachments appear. It contains:
Toggles the display of attachments. When this item is selected, Evolution will create a separate pane of the composition window to show what attachments you are appending to the message.
The Insert menu holds tools that allow you to include images, horizontal rules, and other objects in the body of your message. The tools are:
This tool will prompt you to select an image file to insert into your HTML message. For text messages, this is the same as attaching an image file.
Opens the link creation window, which lets you specify the URL and text description for a link in your message. This only works with HTML messages.
Opens the horizontal rule creation dialog, which lets you create an HTML horizontal rule. For more information, see the section called Embellish your email with HTML in Chapter 3. This tool only works with HTML messages.
Open a text file and insert it into the current message. This tool works with both plain text and HTML messages.