218728 - White space doesn't seem to be defined right

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Frank Spade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

When I double-click at the first underscores in the following string, the whole
string including the comma at the end is selected. I would expect the selection
to stop at the blank after the first line of underscores. When I double-click at
"at" the remaining characters including the comma at the end is selected.

___________ at ________ ,

Testing this even in this texarea input box I am using right now produces more
desirable results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the string "___________ at ________ ," into composer
2. double-click at any part of it and see the resulting selection
3. goto preview and repeat 2.
4. save page and load in Mozilla, repeat 2.

Actual Results:  
The whole string or the remaining string including the comma at the end is selected.

Expected Results:  
The selection should stop with the first white-space not with the first
non-white-space character. 
If the selection consists of white-space characters it should stop with the
first white-space character that is different than the one clicked at.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

--> Composer

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gérard Talbot]

I get the expected results when I try the steps to reproduce. Seamonkey 1.1a rv:
1.9a1 build 2005100105 under XP Pro SP2 here.

Resolving as WORKSFORME

Reporter, if the problem still persists with a recent nightly trunk build, then
reopen the bugfile.