285477 - Cursor resists placement after "--" mark for sender signoff

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jon Roland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Mnenhy/0.7.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Mnenhy/0.7.1

This did not occur in V0.9, but has appeared in V. 1.0 20041216. When trying to
position the cursor after the "--" to signoff my name, even though I place the
mouse to the right of it, the Compose window insists on placing the cursor to
the left of the "--", at the beginning of the line. Hitting the End key also
doesn't work to move the cursor to the right of the "--". I have to
painstakingly place the cursor between the two dashes and then use the right
arrow key to move it rightward. This is very annoying, especially when one is in
a hurry.

Jon--

(Oops, I intended to write --Jon)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Jon Roland]

This seems to have gotten fixed somewhere along the way and I haven't
encountered it for a while, so it could be retired as fixed.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

WFM per reporter's comment 2.