47367 - Tab to Subject, caret at right end instead of selecting the whole field

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69310

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[selmer (gone)]

In 4.x, tabbing into the subject line during message compose puts you at the
left most character.  In 6.0, it puts you at the rightmost character.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

The correct behavior is neiter to put the cursor at the beginning or at the end
of the text field but rather select the whole text. This is done correctly when
using the enter key from an empty reipient field but not with the tab key.

Rassign to varada, trivial fix. Look at the function awEnterHit (or something
like that)

Comment 2

[varada]

Accepting bugs.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

This is probably a duplicate bug.  I believe all edit fields have this problem.  
Maybe Charley knows the bug I'm thinking of?

Comment 4

[Charles Manske]

We shouldn't have special JS code to handle tabbing into each textbox.
Dup of bug 69310, but it is a very difficult problem:
The selection should be done in nsGFXTextWidget's onFocus(), but we can't tell
the difference between a tab (or other key) and user click (in which case we
don't want to select all)!



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69310 ***

Comment 5

[Håkan Waara]

verified dup.