199137 - Add user interface to enable/disable text decoration using / * _ characters (structs)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Mirek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

The mail/news always interprets *foo* _foo_ /foo/ as bold,underline,italics
text. This is rather inconvenient for emails containing math formulae like:
A _i = b_i *d_j /K_i + c_i* d_j/ L_ j  or just A= b *d /K + c* d/ L
The user should have UI to swith this feature on/off, like emoticons
(Edit/Prefs/Mail/MessageDisp/DisplayEmoticonsAsGraphics).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sent yourself a plaintext email containig line (spaces matter!):
A _i = b_i *d_j /K_i + c_i* d_j/ L_ j  


Expected Results:  
Have this UI (tickbox is enough).

This is related to (but not dupes of) bug 106028 , bug 158706 , bug 123326 (I
presume relevat comments are bug 123326 comment 22 , and maybe 19).

Comment 1

[timeless]

edit>preferences>mail & newsgroups>message display>[ ] Display emoticons as graphics

Comment 2

[Mirek]

Reopening, this bug was NOT about emoticons (I am happy with these). 

I wanted antoher tickbox just below the emoticons to switch the text decoration
on/off instead of editing the prefs.js file (like recommended in bug 123326
comment 22 ).
The UI should be (both lines):
edit>preferences>mail & newsgroups>message display>[ ] Display emoticons as graphics
edit>preferences>mail & newsgroups>message display>[ ] Display text decorations
in plaintext

As I have tested, the emoticon tickbox IS NOT affecting the text decoration
control. (this case would be bad as well since it would overload the emoticon
tickbox).

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

There is a preference to turn this off:  mail.display_struct
You can access this by typing   about:config   in the browser's address bar; 
then find the preference in the table (type 'struct' in the Filter field to 
speed that process up), double-click the preference and change 'true' to 
'false'.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Mirek]

As this bug was for adding user interface (which is still not there and the
prefs can allow to set the feature on/off),the feature should be either
implemented or bug resolved as WONTFIX. "Expired" is somehow inappropriate
outcome....

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

The SeaMonkey (trunk) Preferences UI is currently being ported to a different backend.

I'm confirming that the UI in question isn't there. 

However, Mirek, don't set your hopes too high: I'm not the one who decides about any changes, and it's quite possible your bug will be resolved WONTFIX.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Those are called structs, which would likely make this a duplicate of bug 23582.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IIUC, bug 23582 is mostly about a UI for mail.send_struct while this bug is mostly about a UI for mail.display_struct