333458 - cumbersome to set text color the same in multiple places

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90665

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Dave Merrill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Version 1.5 (20051201)

In mail responses, sometimes I want to highlight my responses to a bulleted list (or similar) with color.  Doing this once (for single bullet response) is okay, but there's no productivity gain to repeating this action for a series of text blocks.
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I'd like to select the text, and use Edit-Redo (Ctrl+Y -- a single keystroke).
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Instead I need to:
1. Select the text
2. Menu: Format...Text Color, or click the Text Color Button
3. Click the "Last Picked Color" button, or Alt-L
4. Click OK
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I guess the best I could do (by learning an obscure sequence) might be:
Alt-O C Alt-L [enter]

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Allow using Edit-Redo to apply text color change

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

You're actually asking for "repeat" rather than "redo" -- "redo" generally means "undo that last undo."  This is bug 90665.

Redoing color is not keyboard-accessible, unfortunately, but it can be accomplished by selecting the text and Shift+Click on the text-color swatch.
See bug 305867.

This bug should be marked as a dupe of one of those, please pick which aspect is more important to you -- repeating color, or the general repeat.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.