195155 - When modifying a mail message, and you highlight something, if you hit delete, it delets the message

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Seth Master]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

When modifying a mail message, and you highlight something, if you hit delete,
it delets the message instead of deleted the passage you highlighted.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

How are you modifying the mail? In the editor? Is this while composing new mail?
Did you "open as new"? Is it plaintext or html mail? Please include steps to
reproduce. 

Comment 2

[Seth Master]

Steps used to reproduce.

All my messages are in plain text, I have this set from the preferences menu.

This is when opening a previosly sent message, or a received message, if you
open the message, and try to edit anything, and you hit delete after
highlighting a word, the message is delete.

There was no prompt for do you  want to save this message, do you want to
discard this changes made, or do you want to delete, as any confirmation.

I wanted to edit the message so I can print it without including the whole
conversation. Currently, I have to hit reply, or forward, before I can edit the
message for printing.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Seth Master: I don't see why you think this is a bug.  One of the ideas of any 
mail client is to maintain the integrity of the message as sent; it's not 
supposed to allow changing a received message, only for outgoing mail.  You can 
save the message to a file and edit that, or copy the text to an editor/word 
processor.

It may be a bit unnerving to not display a confirmation when you weren't 
expecting the message to be deleted, but when the deletion *is* expected a 
confirmation dialog would really get in the way.  There is an Undo Delete 
function, so you haven't lost any data.

I recommend marking this bug  Resolved|Invalid.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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