167992 - Mail composition has significant editing problems

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[David Campbell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

I have seen these behaviours when editing e-mail in mozilla.
1.  Arrow keys refuse to go down below a certain point in the e-mail message
when there is more text below where the cursor is, but if you click below with
the mouse, then the cursor is happy to go where the mouse tells it to go.
2.  Arrow keys send cursor to strange places in the document.  You might go down
and then all of a sudden the cursor is up in a section above where you are editing.
3.  Pressing the arrow key down arbitrarily skips over a line.
4.  Clicking the mouse pointer after text on a line sometimes does not send the
cursor to the end of that line.
5.  Pressing delete at the beginning of a line deletes the last character on
that same line.

I am providing info to be able to reproduce [4] above.  I regularly see these
problems but most times I'm too busy to detail a report case up for you.  I'll
try to add more info as time goes on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Grab the attachment I will provide and append it to your Drafts folder with a
text editor.
2.Restart mozilla.
3.Open the message from the drafts folder for editing, with a double-click.
4.Click the mouse pointer just before the "p" on the line that says "private IP"
5.Press backspace

Actual Results:  
It deletes the "P" at the end of the same line.


Expected Results:  
acted correctly

Comment 1

[David Campbell]

Attachment: message to add to drafts folder (a compressed text file)

I've submitted it compressed so that it is exactly as-is and no CR/LF
conversion happens in the submission process.

Comment 2

[David Campbell]

sorry I'm reproducing case[5] not [4]

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

over to editor

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

There are too many issues in this bug; please file a separate bug for each
issue.  This bug will only cover issue #5 in the original report:
  Pressing delete at the beginning of line deletes the last character on line

-->Editor:Core

David Campbell--is it possible for you to get a newer build of mozilla and test
it to see if this is still a problem?  I have a feeling that this problem was
fixed.  Please comment here in this bug with your findings.

Comment 5

[Vincent Valvona]

I too had major problems with the mail editor of 1.1:
  It was not posible to select / save attachments
  It was not posible to enter the editing area of the message

These problems appear to have been fixed in 1.2b

Comment 6

[Joe Francis]

David, do you still see problem #5 in the latest build?  I think this problem is
one which I fixed, but I'm not sure becasue I'm unable to view your attachment.  

Comment 7

[Michael Lefevre]

reporter (David): can you reproduce this bug with a recent build of mozilla (for
example, 1.3a)? if so, please comment again with details. if not, please resolve
this bug as WORKSFORME. thanks.

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

No response from reporter for >30 days. resolving.

Reporter: If you can reproduce this with a recent build of Mozilla, then please
reopen this bug and give details. Thanks.

Comment 9

[David Campbell]

Yes I have just tried this in build 2002121215 and it is fixed.

Comment 10

[Michael Lefevre]

thanks David.

however, we don't use "CLOSED", that should have been "VERIFIED", so I'll just
reopen and change that...

Comment 11

[Michael Lefevre]

WORKSFORME per reporter

Comment 12

[Michael Lefevre]

and verified

Comment 13

[David Campbell]

I've just posted today http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191981 which
is another one of these weird editing errors, but as per a request made here,
I've made it in a new bug number.

Comment 14

[David Campbell]

I've just posted today http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195080 which
is another one of these weird editing errors, but as per a request made here,
I've made it in a new bug number.

Comment 15

[David Campbell]

I've just posted today http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195089 which
is another one of these weird editing errors, but as per a request made here,
I've made it in a new bug number.