349992 - When composing new mail, 'Replace' in 'Find and Replace' does not work.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7pre) Gecko/20060818 SeaMonkey/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7pre) Gecko/20060818 SeaMonkey/1.0.4

When composing new mail, if 'Find and Replace' is activated from the Edit menu or by typing Command > F, 'Replace' does not work. ('Find and Replace' and 'Replace All' do work.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose 'Mail & Newsgroups' > 'Compose'.
2. Type a message.
3. Click at beginning of message.
4. Open 'Find & Replace' from Edit menu or by typing Command > F.
5. In 'Find' and 'Replace' type a word in the message and a different word, respectively.
6. Click 'Replace'.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
The first word should be replaced by the second.

eMac G4 (PPC), OS X 10.4.7. Theme: 'Mostly Crystal Small'.

Comment 1

[Michael Graubart]

I have now tried this again (and using various themes) and it seems that the apparent malfunction is not a bug but somehow due to the way I was using the 'Find & Change' function. So I suspect I should withdraw this bug report.

Comment 2

[Michael Graubart]

I think (but it was a long time ago now) I probably failed to move the insertion point back to the beginning of the message before clicking 'Find'. It is actually quite annoying that one has to do that, because in most word-processing and other programs 'Find' works wherever the insertion point is located. That is something that might be considered as a modification in the future.