132825 - mail composition displays tabs incorrectly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58712

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Colin Jitlal]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020315
BuildID:    2002031500

I am using the non-HTML mail composition option with Moz mail,
and I'm running on a Solaris 8 box.

When I am composing an email, I will indent a new line of text by pressing TAB.
I would expect this to move the first tab stop (which
is 8 chars).

However, what actually happens is that the cursor only moves one space. However,
when I then begin to type any additional text, the
cursor moves to the next tab stop.

I also observe this behaviour when I insert a tab at the end of a line of
existing text. However, when I insert a tab in the middle of a line
of text, the tab key press is respected correctly (ie the cursor moves to the
next tab stope)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.set prefs to compose mail in non-HTML mode
2.compose new mail message
3.press TAB keys in each of the 3 scenaris described above

Actual Results:  If mail window was this:

=begin
Dear XX,

=end

and I now press the tab key, I see this
=begin
Dear XX,
 
=end


Expected Results:  
I would rather see this:

=begin
Dear XX,
       
=end

note that 2nd line is prefixed by N spaces, where N is the difference between 
1st and 2nd tabstop

Comment 1

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

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

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup