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(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #139)
> * Backspacing into a pill should not delete the pill, but re-enter edit mode and delete only the last characters.

Please don't. Backspacing onto a pill *should* delete the pill, and consecutive backspaces should delete pills backwards one by one. Backspacing to delete character-wise only makes sense for a single pill in edit mode. It's highly unlikely that user needs to edit more than one or two odd pills in a delete-per-character fashion, whereas it's much more likely that recipients need to be removed. We have just introduced the distinction in bug 1527547 to improve the UX-efficiency of removing recipients, and it works well: For editing a single recipient, backspace deletes characterwise until that recipient (display name and email address text) is completely deleted. Pressing backspace again on an empty recipient row will remove the row and start removing recipients one by one. I haven't tried pills yet, so I'll comment again after that, but I believe wrt keyboard deletion pills should behave similar to the current release version behaviour, where my patch of bug 1527547 has created a coarse pill-style experience.

(In reply to Ben Bucksch (:BenB) from comment #139)
> * Backspacing into a pill should not delete the pill, but re-enter edit mode and delete only the last characters.

Please don't. Backspacing onto a pill *should* delete the pill, and consecutive backspaces should delete pills backwards one by one. Backspacing to delete character-wise only makes sense for a single pill in edit mode. It's highly unlikely that user needs to edit more than one or two odd pills in a delete-per-character fashion, whereas it's much more likely that recipients need to be removed. We have just introduced the distinction in bug 1527547 to improve the UX-efficiency of removing recipients, and it works well: For editing a single recipient, backspace deletes characterwise until that recipient (display name and email address text) is completely deleted. Pressing backspace again on an empty recipient row will remove the row and start removing recipients one by one. I haven't tried pills yet, so I'll comment again after that, but I believe wrt keyboard deletion pills should behave similar to the current release version behaviour, where my patch of bug 1527547 has created a precursory pill-style experience.