460975 - There should be a way to increase/decrease quotation level for text when composing an e-mail

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

Quoting bug #192330:

* "Paste as quotation" only lets you increase the quotation level, so there
should be "Increase quotation level" and "Decrease quotation level" commands anyway.

Now that this bug is fixed, people are annoyed that there's no quick way to paste text as quotation anymore. Hence, I think it should be possible to increase/decrease quotation level for text that is already in the editor, whether it's being pasted or not.

Comment 1

[Rimas Kudelis [use needinfo to ping]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> whether it's being pasted or not.

Actually, I meant "whether it was pasted or not".

Comment 2

[Peter Lairo]

This bug is related to (or might conflict with) bug 461117.

I prefer the other bug's solution because this bug would take two steps (instead of just one) for the common paste-a-quote-into-an-e-mail scenario: 1. paste the text, 2. increase the text's quote level by one.

PS. I wonder if it would be useful to have a button and/or key combo that would:

1. indent the paragraph
2. mark the paragraph in /italics/

It should be sufficient to have the cursor somewhere in the paragraph, and not have to select the whole paragraph.

This would create "quoted text" that would be recognizable in Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. A huge benefit IMO.

Comment 3

[Barry Gauthier]

The Qualcomm versions 6.1 & older, allowed you to add and remove quote levels.  It was under EDIT/Text. Or keystrokes ( Ctrl+> to add and Ctrl+ to remove).

Comment 4

[Sven Greiner]

This is even more serious because you cannot remove a quote at all.

- Compose a new mail with plain text editor
- "Paste as quotation", text will be shown in blue with "> …"
- Remove the ">", but the text is still formatted as a quote and sending the mail will add ">" again.

See also bug 1356012 for more use cases.