293770 - When replying to messages the quotation stops at the first -- in the body text.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 201581

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Bob Kerstetter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
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yep, I know this has to do with quoting to the signature, but i correspond with people who use -- in their 
body text. so when replying to these people, everything from the first -- to the end does not get quoted. 
it has nothing to do with the signature. this make replying pretty difficult. please make quoting to -- an 
option. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reply to a message with -- in the body text. people often use -- instead of en and em dashes because 
of the encoding problems this can cause, even in text-only messages. it's a habit that will die hard. 
Actual Results:  
quotes to the first -- in the body

Expected Results:  
quoted the whole thing.

no crash

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Bob Kerstetter]

Yes. The problem still exists. I know y'all don't consider it a bug, but a design feature. Whatever it is, 
my employer (1) uses double dashes at the beginning of his signature, (2) top posts (it's not my fault) 
and (3) places his signature immediately after his reply, not at the end of the message. Basically, I just 
want an option to disable Thunderbird's jihad against top posting. It would be really cool if the option 
could be selectively applied to top posters (!) --but don't hold up an account-wide option because of 
this.  Naturally, I see the value of what you are doing for people who bottom post, and, of course, top 
posting sucks, but millions of people do it and it has no eternal consequences. So, please, allow 
Thunderbird to ignore the double dashes when replying. I just want it as an option. 

Actually, I think this is a duplicate and hopefully is being handled by Bug 201581. Someone put me on 
that lists. The odd thing is this, the original report for Bug 201581 reads like I wrote it, especially the 
comment about changing people's top posting options on their clients. I mean, if I didn't fear losing my 
job, I would change the options on people's clients. Bottom posting is so much more efficient when it 
comes to email communications. Bug 201581 belongs to Jean-Francois Ducarroz 
<[e-mail]>. Maybe this should be consolidated with that bug report. 

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Actually, I think this is a duplicate <..> Bug 201581.
> Maybe this should be consolidated with that bug report.

Marking this bug as duplicate of bug 201581.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 201581 ***