62872 - plain text message compose window lacks context menu

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P2)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

filing this per conversation with seth. consider this a companion to bug 62870.

mozilla/6.x doesn't provide a context menu for plain text mail composition. in
4.7x on winNT, a context menu is available for plain text message compose. [but
not, alas, on mac or linux 4.7x.] it contained the following items:

Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
Select All

could this be implemented XP for mozilla/6.x? thx!

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Why aren't we automatically inheriting the context menu used for other text 
fields?

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

methinks this is nsCatfood...

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 75592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Koike Kazuhiko]

*** Bug 77291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to varada

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** Bug 96223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 101096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Dimitrios]

NS4 does have composing context menu. And this feature can't be excluded from
any serious Mozilla 1.0 specification, imho. Could you add 4xp and Mozilla1.0
keywords ?

Comment 9

[jglick]

Spec is here:
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/compose/Comp_Menus.html#ContextSpecificMen
us

Comment 10

[eberry]

*** Bug 113756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Jonas Jørgensen]

4xp, nsbeta1

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

since bug 98608 has a reviewed fix, any particular reasons why this one
shouldn't or couldn't be fixed? just wondering. thx!

Comment 13

[Blake Ross]

My fix for that fixed this.

Comment 14

[Blake Ross]

Oh, but I didn't realize there was a spec for this.

The context menu I added is:

Undo
---
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste as Quotation
Delete
---
Select All

I just wanted to get the bare minimum functionality up.  Why aren't Undo and
Select All in the context menu, per the spec?  Anyway, someone can assign a bug
about making it match the spec to me, if they'd like.

Comment 15

[Olga]

Verified on Linux, Win 2K, Mac OSX.
new bug 122410 to match the spec.