133747 - Make existing text a quote by pressing <Back> at the beginning of a line

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Sascha Claus]

Mozilla 0.9.9 {Build ID: 2002031104} on Windows 98 First Edition

1) Write an e-mail with some quoted text.
2) Type <RETURN> into a quoted line (e.g. to write something between two sentences).
3) Insert "> " before the new line to make it a quote.
OR:
1) Write an e-mail with some quoted text.
2) Insert some text from the clipboard, e.g. by mistake deleted quotes.
3) Insert "> " before a new line to make it a quote.

Actual Result:
You are unable to make new text a real quote.

Expected Result:
You should be able to make new text a quote, e.g. by typing <Backspace> at the
very beginning of a line.

Comment 1

[Todd Cohn]

There is a way to add new quoted text, although perhaps it could be easier to
do:  Edit -> Paste as quotation

Does this satisfy your needs, reporter?

Comment 2

[Sascha Claus]

Yes, but it is complicated and difficult to find.
It would be nice if it would be possible to do this an easier way. (Dependency
with bug 133741 because it would be useless if you can't see it.)

-> Make existing text a quote by pressing <Back> at the beginning of a line
only if the text starts with a quote sign, of course

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Pretty weird and obscure. Backspace should just delete whatever is before the
caret, be it a space, ">" or a newline. I.e. suggest another keycombo or this
should be WONTFIX.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"