234972 - Find and Replace should operate on current selection only (if any)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The Find and Replace function of the mail editor does care about selections made
by the user, but it should. :)

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Hmpf. :( I meant: 
Find and Replace does currently *not* care about selected text. 

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm presuming this bug means that search/replace should be *limited* to the 
selected portion.  "Honor" is a pretty vague term in this context.

Is this MailNews:Composition, or Editor?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 246640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Karsten Düsterloh]

The bug is also in Composer, thus moving to Editor.
Also stealing summary parts from fantasai. ;-)

Comment 5

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Certainly this should be the default, but rather a radio-box option in the find and replace dialog.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 8

[brendel oliver]

I just wanted to submit a new bug and found this one : still in 91.4.1, when editing an email, highlighting some text and then opening the search and replace window, there is either no text or some old text in the find box, not the text that was highlighted in the email editor.
This is so standard in so many programs that I really was quite astonished that it does not work like this in TB

Cheers

Oliver

Comment 9

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

The original request of this bug was for applications, which is a very different scope of the current DOM:Editor component.
I created a new https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1885833 in Thunderbird to track this feature request.