185674 - 1) Plain text email composition - arrow keys stop working. 2) Long headers when expanded past the window boundary in preview mode, do not contract back properly.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Mark Jacobs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

1) When composing a new email in plain text, the arrow keys lose their function
as soon as you try to go back and correct something. However, positioning of the
cursor using the mouse works.
2) Long headers when expanded past the window boundary in preview mode, do not
contract back properly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start a new plain text email and use the address button to select recipients.
2.Type in your subject, and then tab into the body of the message.
3.Start typing the message. Try using the back arrow key after a couple of lines
have been typed.
Actual Results:  
All arrow keys stop working, and there is a cursor flashing in the subject line
all of a sudden. Trying to tab out of the subject line, puts tabs into the body
of the email.

Expected Results:  
Allowed me to compose without all this happening.

Comment 1

[Aurele Venet]

Hello, I would like to contribute some more to the first part of this bug
report.   I work on a Sun Solaris (2.8) platform. I noticed that the arrows only
work on the first line of a wrapped around sentence.  It also affects this
current sentence that I am typing.  As soon as the second line starts (from "I
work on...") I cannot use my arrows.  If I position my cursor with my mouse
anywhere in the first  line the arrows works again.  

Note now that I start a new sentence (ie I hit return and this line is not yet
wrapped) the same thing happens.  hope this gives some more clue.  

Comment 2

[George Beckett]

I too am experiencing these problems with Mozilla Version 1.3 on Solaris 2.8. As
previously commented, the problem occurs when long lines are wrapped in text
boxes (for example, the body of an e-mail in either HTLM or TEXT mode, or text
boxes in online forms (like this one)). It is specifically the left and right
cursor keys and there C-b, C-f equivalents that are affected. Stepping between
wrapped lines (other than the first) using up and down (or C-n and C-p) doesn't
appear to be affected: neither does stepping between words using C-Left and
C-Right. Most other keys such as Home and End also function normally.

A temporary and partially satisfactory work around is to position the cursor
with a mouse, or terminate each line manually using a Return character prior to
wrapping (can use the Rewrap function in e-mail to preserve the presentation).
Alternatively, use C-left and C-right to step between words.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Mark Jacobs: is this bug still an issue for you?
The problem of the headers not "contracting" properly is, I believe, bug 167468.
The arrow-key problem, I am unable to reproduce.

Comment 4

[Mark Jacobs]

The cursor keys problem appears to have been fixed in version 1.3, however the 
expand header of an e-mail problem in the preview window still remains. This 
latter problem is a duplicate of bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?
id=167468 - we're getting there!

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopening to fix resolution

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Mark Jacobs, please use "WorksForMe" rather than "Fixed" unless a patch has been 
submitted specifically for the bug.
I've done that now; as penance  :)   you can mark this bug as Verified.

Comment 7

[Greg Ubben]

For anyone who stumbles across this bug, the first issue was a bug in the 
Complex Text Layout (CTL) code.  It was fixed on 2004-03-01, by 1.7.
See bug 188288.