280689 - copy text of message summary in thread pane to clipboard

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Michael Spertus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 (ax)

Selecting lines in the message summary pane cannot be copied with Ctrl-C or the
edit menu. See attached screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some message in the summary pane.
2. In the edit menu, copy is grayed out.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
The lines should have been copied to the clipboard

Comment 1

[Michael Spertus]

Attachment: I can't copy this selection

Comment 2

[Hiro]

Confirm.
And I think that this is a problem of looking like bug218498.

In the case with this report, "Message -> Copy->..." is effective to the copy. 
It is not "Edit -> Copy". 

In Outlook, the message can be copied with "Edit -> Copy". 

Windows XP
Tb 1.0 release

Comment 3

[Mark B]

In either the summary/preview pane or a message window, Edit..Copy is greyed out
until I select some text.  At that point I 
a) press Ctrl-C
b) Right-click and choose copy
c) use Edit...Copy

Ah!  I can't paste into another application, but I can paste into (for example)
a new message in Thunderbird.  I think this is the first time I've tried copying
text from a received message into another application.

The received message is plain text, I'm using WinXP SP2.  Apologies for not
having time to try a nightly build.

Mark.

Comment 4

[troy]

I have the problem that copy is greyed out, but ctrl-C does work for me. (Linux,
1.0.2).

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

morphing -> enhancement

(note, reporter Michael Spertus is gone)