1190076 - Text wrongly marked as quoted when composing a reply

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[alex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150513174244

Steps to reproduce:

- Click reply on a mail (text/plain mode)
- See the quote and your signature
- Mark some text on the end of the quote until the end of the signature and remove it (backspace)
- type something


Actual results:

- The Text is not prefixed by ">", but marked as quote (blue text)
- Inserting newlines with enter (i.e. to seperate reply from quote with a blank line) does not work correctly in different ways, e.g. not inserting newlines or needing two times enter to insert a newline.

On the other Hand (may be relevant):
- Reply with quote
- Place the cursor just under the quoted text
- Press backspace to get on the end of the last quoted line
- Type
- The text is black (no quote) instead of blue


Expected results:

The editor should just behave like a usual text editor, except that lines beginning with ">" are colored.

Comment 1

[alex]

At least the wrong coloring does happen, when just removing from the end of quoted text or when marking some lines in the quote and removing them with backspace, too.

And when marking some lines inside the quote and removing them by pressing enter, there is an empty line below the remaining quote before the lines and below this line an empty line with the cursor (correctly typing black text), which should be just one blank line with the cursor in it, shouldn't it?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Alex, do you see this problem when using version 45?

Comment 3

[alex]

Yes still happens.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

ALso happens in safe mode https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode ?

Comment 5

[alex]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, use Needinfo for questions) from comment #4)
Yes, still happens.

Comment 6

[alex]

Even happens with a fresh profile:

- Create a fresh profile
- setup some dummy mailadresse (unix mailspool, no servers, etc. needed)
- create some draft with multiple lines
- move to inbox
- click reply
- mark line 2 to the end
- hit backspace
- type something

Related:
When line 2 was a blank line (and is "> " in the composer", the cursor jumps to line 1 after pressing backspace, but when i start typing the line instantly breaks and create a blue line not prefixed with "> " below the first quote line.

Comment 7

[alex]

Happens the other way, too.

- Write some reply between quoted lines
- cut some quoted text below
- paste it above (just below the other quotes above the reply)
- It's black instead of blue

btw: didn't want to mark it as resolved in the post before.