104936 - Dataloss: Composer Deletes Entire Paragraph Hitting del twice

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 101690

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Ben Ruppel]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.5+)
Gecko/20011015
BuildID:    2001101503



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new mail compose window
2.Type some stuff.  Press enter twice.  Now type some more stuff.
3.You should now have 2 paragraphs, separated by a blank line
4.Move the cursor to the end of the first paragraph.
5.Hold ctrl and press left to select the last word of the first paragraph.
(also, manually selecting the last words with the mouse works, but only if you
select entire words)
6.Press del twice

Actual Results:  A lot of the first paragraph vanishes.  I think at least 2
lines.  In their place there is a little blue vertical bar, like one sees from
quoted text in outlook emails.  I am not a happy camper.

Expected Results:  Just remove the last selected words, and get rid of the space
between paragraphs.

I just lost a big important letter to this.  It has happened another time in the
last week.  While the reproduction steps seem long, it happens a lot when you
cut and paste and end up with an extra line between paragraphs.  Now I'm scared
to hit delete.

Comment 1

[Ben Ruppel]

Notes: hitting ctrl-Z does not recover the lost text
I just found bug 104779, which is very close, but not the same.  I can not
reproduce that bug on win32 (it was filed for linux).

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to editor

Comment 3

[kinmoz]

I assume you are using Plaintext Mail Compose ... I checked in a fix for bug 
101690 which should fix the problem. Marking this as a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101690 ***

Comment 4

[Ben Ruppel]

Cool!  Thanks much.

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified.