105661 - tab in message composer initially indents cursor only one space

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58712

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Leston Buell]

Easier to describe the steps than to describe:

1. Start composing a new e-mail message.
2. Enter a tab.
   Note that the cursor is indented only one space.
3. Enter any additional character.
   The text is correctly indented 8 spaces.

The expected behavior would be for the cursor to indent 8 spaces as soon as it
is entered. This behavior seems to occur only with a tab entered at the end of a
line; a tab entered inside an existing line of text indents 8 spaces.

This bug is very annoying when using tabs to create indented lists of the type:

Look at my indented list:
        1. First item.
                a. a subitem
                b. another subitem
        2. Second item.

I'm using Linux 2001-10-18-08, but this has been around for quite a while.

Comment 1

[Sheela Ravindran]

I have seen a similar bug. Most likely a dup.

Comment 2

[Shotaro Kamio]

*** Bug 106359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

reassign

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

dup


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58712 ***

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified.