1161337 - Marking message text with citation before replying erroneously inserts additional citation level ('>' character)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 669073

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Michael Fiedler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.6.0
Build ID: 20150401080915

Steps to reproduce:

Thunderbird versions affected:
* Icedove 31.3.0-1~deb7u1 (Debian Linux)
* Icedove 31.6.0-1 (Debian Linux)
* Thunderbird 38.0 (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/38.0b4-candidates/build5/linux-i686/en-US/)


1. Compose a new message with some text and save it:

foo

2. View that message, reply to it and save the reply message. The message correctly has one level of citation from the first message:



On 05/05/2015 01:33 AM, Michael Fiedler wrote:
> foo
> 
bar

3. View the second message and mark some or all lines of it. Now reply to it.


Actual results:

The reply message from 3. has a maximum citation level of three (> characters per line):

On 05/05/2015 01:34 AM, Michael Fiedler wrote:
> 
> On 05/05/2015 01:33 AM, Michael Fiedler wrote:
>> > foo
>> > 
> bar


Expected results:

There should be only two levels of citation:

On 05/05/2015 01:34 AM, Michael Fiedler wrote:
> 
> On 05/05/2015 01:33 AM, Michael Fiedler wrote:
>> foo
>>
> bar
> 

This is the correct message that I get if I do not mark any text in step 3.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This has been reported before in 2011.