1051129 - format flowed: Replies add space to lines with leading whitespace

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 391765

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Trane Francks]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.77.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.1.5 Safari/537.77.4

Steps to reproduce:

Replied to plain text newsgroup message that contains lines with leading whitespace.

Example text:

s    a
     a
=======

s + 4 spaces + a
5  spaces + a
7 = signs


Actual results:

Each subsequent reply prepends a space onto the quoted lines containing whitespace.

First quote:

> s    a
>       a
> =======
> s 4 x spaces a
>   5 x spaces a

Second quote of same content:

>> s    a
>>        a
>> =======
>> s 4 x spaces a
>>    5 x spaces a


Expected results:

Formatting of the existing quote should remain consistent whether lead characters are numeric, alphabetic or whitespace. Indenting should be consistent across character types.

Comment 1

[Trane Francks]

Further testing would seem to indicate that this is related to format=flowed. Setting that pref to false causes quoting to behave normally.

mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed;false

By default, this pref is true.