151332 - [RFE] menu/key for "Paste as Quotation" for textarea

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Koike Kazuhiko]

It's very convenient if "Paste as Quotation" is available for textarea.

Comment 1

[kinmoz]

Cc akkana. Akk, didn't you add something like that for Linux?

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

> Akk, didn't you add something like that for Linux?

Yes.  Ctrl-middleclick does a paste as quotation if the pref "middlemouse.paste"
is set (on all platforms, but it's only enabled by default on unix).  It uses
the nsIEditorMailSupport::PasteAsQuotation interface, and you can QI a text
control to nsIEditorMailSupport.   The code that handles this for middleclick is
in nsEditorEventListeners.

Probably just adding the item to the appropriate xul menu is all this would
require.  Though at least on linux, the command enabling for the clipboard items
is wonky -- paste as quotation almost never enables in mail compose windows
(there's an old long-ignored bug on that).  Maybe it works better on other
platforms.

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

I want this function in GUI and Shortcut Key.
If it has a shortcut key assigned,Ctrl + Shift + V will think that it is good.

Comment 4

[Akkana Peck]

At this point it sounds like what's needed is a decision as to which key this
should go on, where and whether to add a menu item, and then a key binding that
works on windows.  Aaron?  Do we have any keys open that could be used for this,
and do you think this is a common-enough request that it needs to take up a menu
item and a key binding slot?  Reassign it to me for the implementation, if you
like, once we decide what (if anything) is to be done.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Let's use Accel+Shift+V, since it's not taken, and it's what mailnews uses.
I doubt we want to add another item to the edit menu though.

Comment 6

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Many web site of Japanese has BBS.
And when Japanese people post message to the BBS,
they paste the contents to response in many cases.

If (Context)Menu is only one (no shortcutkey) to access to the function,
I regard at least it as convenient.
# when this function will be useed, we will copy the text with mouse in many cases.

Now, default prefs on Windows OS is user_pref("middlemouse.paste", false);
But, when Windows users will use this function, they must set prefs
user_pref("middlemouse.paste", true);
this is not like other windows applications....

Comment 7

[u69748]

I think it is cool.

Comment 8

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

I think that the editor has "Paste As Quotation".
Therefore, we only need UI for SeaMonkey and Firefox.
I wrote Firefox's code in bug 323166.

Comment 9

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

> I wrote Firefox's code in bug 323166.

Sorry. bug 323166 -> bug 323496.

Comment 10

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Mass-removing myself from cc; search for 12b9dfe4-ece3-40dc-8d23-60e179f64ac1 or any reasonable part thereof, to mass-delete these notifications (and sorry!)

Comment 11

[Akkana Peck]

Removing myself as assignee for editor bugs, since the editor project is (sadly) long gone.

Comment 12

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

bug 323496 was marked as WONTFIX. So, we cannot fix this.