39580 - Format text/plain files just like plain-text messages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39042

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Various formatting is optionally applied to plain-text messages when they are 
shown in Messenger: URLs are detected and converted to links, _pseudo-formatting_ 
is detected and converted to the relevant physical markup, text may or may not be 
shown in a proportional font, and so on.

There is no good reason that the same options shouldn't also apply to text/plain 
files when they are viewed in Navigator. When I open a plain-text file, apart 
from the lack of headers, it should be just as if it was a plain-text e-mail 
message in Messenger -- URLs should be linkified, _pseudo-formatting_ should be 
enhanced, and so on.

Comment 1

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

I agree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39042 ***

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I had looked to see if this was already reported, but had very little idea of 
what such a bug would look like ...

Verified dup.