183390 - quoted text in the plaintext compose window ignores "message display" options

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 152144

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Edward Loper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When replying to a message in plaintext format, the quoted text is always blue;
there is no way to change the color/formatting.  It seems like the most sensible
option is to use the options from "Mail & Newsgroups::Message Display::Plain
Text Messages::Use the following settings when displaying quoted plain text
messages."  This problem is significant if the default colors are set to a
light-on-dark scheme, because the blue text is very difficult to read on a dark
background.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit->Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings->Accout settings: uncheck "compose
messages in HTML format"
2.: Edit->Preferences: Change "Mail & Newsgroups::Message Display::Plain Text
Messages::Use the following settings when displaying quoted plain text messages"
to green.
3. Reply to a message

Actual Results:  
Quoted text is blue

Expected Results:  
Quoted text is green

Comment 1

[Craig]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
still has this bug

It would be preferable for there to be a setting (and default) of not treating
quoted text in any special way at all, besides the addition of > at the
beginning of lines. As it stands, if you edit some quoted text to realign it in
some way, removing the > marks and then put the > marks back in, the strange
blue formatting doesn't return. Therefore, you see some quoted lines in blue and
some not. This is just confusing and misleading.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

see also bug 175346.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152144 ***

Comment 3

[Vedran Miletic]

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