1749439 - Suggestion: During composition, show what text will be linkified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176525

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Brett]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.110 Safari/537.36 Edg/96.0.1054.62

Steps to reproduce:

Compose a message including text (such as https://mozilla.org) to be linkified.
Optionally, click control-s or File -> Save.

Actual results:

There is no visible indication that the text will be linkified.
The behavior nearly matches the behavior described here:
https://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_generated_automatically
But, saving does not cause the linkified text to be displayed (until the message is closed and reopened).

Expected results:

I suggest that the linkifiable text should be shown immediately as a link, or highlighted in some way that shows it will be linkified. Otherwise, the user has no obvious way of knowing if they are creating a clickable link.

At minimum, saving the message should cause the links to be displayed. Thanks!