252913 - The setting "when displaying quoted plain text messages" has no effect

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114954

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

In Tools->Options->Message Display, the setting "when displaying quoted plain
text messages" has no effect on the display of quoted text.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Doug Hockin]

Attachment: Email text to show how a single space is added in front of manually entered quote

Comment 2

[Doug Hockin]

The problem is actually more subtile.  If I manually enter quoted text by
putting a '>' at the beginning of the line and then also use TBird to "Paste as
Quotation",
and then send the email to myself, the manually entered quote is not displayed
as a quote, but the one TBird made is.

So I had it save the received email text and examined it.  TBird decided to add
a single space in front of every line of manually quoted text.  See the attached
email text.  When it displays the manually entered quoted lines, it contrives to
not show that extra space it added at the beginning and doesn't display the
manually entered quote as a quote.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In Tools->Options->Message Display, the setting "when displaying quoted plain
> text messages" has no effect on the display of quoted text.

What setting, exactly, are you talking about?  There are two checkboxes under 
that heading, and I don't know that either of them have anything to do with the 
problem you seem to be discussing in comment 2.

(In reply to comment #2)
> TBird decided to add a single space in front of every line of manually quoted
> text.

Yes, it does that.  If you want to force text in your composition to be treated 
as quoted text, you need to use Paste As Quotation.  Alternately, you could turn 
off format=flowed, but I don't recommend it; the problem resulting from doing so 
are less visible but more problematic.  See bug 168420 for information about 
f=f, including the informative FAQ attached to that bug.

Assuming that this is the entirety of your bug, I'm duping it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114954 ***