386040 - Do not spell check replies

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Dotan Cohen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: 

When replying to an email, one would not correct the text of the original email. Thus, any line beginning with ">" should be ignored by the spell checker.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reply to an email
2.Click "spell check"
Actual Results:  
Tbird checks the spelling of the original email.

Expected Results:  
Tbird would ignore the text of the original email.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

That's how it's working now. Quoted text is ignored, at least for me. 2.0/linux

Comment 2

[Dotan Cohen]

In my 2.0.0.4 built from Mozilla tarball, Tbird spellchecks the replied to email.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

trunk windows also spell checks replies. but version 2.0.0.13pre (20080227), on a different machine, also with spell check as you type enabled, does not.

xref bug 216235, which states (in 2003) that replied text is not checked. 

so this is a regression. or some combination of options?

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This bug was last confirmed in 2011, TB 8 in Bug 549332 Comment 5; but it might be wfm nevertheless and has been reported wfm for a number of scenarios. Wayne mentions in Bug 549332 Comment 4:
> this problem occurs only with 'Spell check as you type'

Should be checked against different scenarios like plaintext-composition and HTML composition, each for normal spell check and 'spell check as you type'.

Comment 6

[Ed]

Should this bug be closed? Replies aren't spell-checked. I happened to find it while testing something else.

Comment 7

[Dotan Cohen]

Thank you, yes, on Thunderbird 128 I see that the problem is resolved.