509088 - Find and Replace doesn't find or replace tab characters (finds any whitespace instead)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[L A Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.22 (20090605)

composing plain text message and wanted to change inserted tabs
to '2' spaces.  
It didn't find or replace the tabs (which I had to cut/past from the text, as
tab in the interface window moves you to the next field.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create plaintext message (non HTML)
2. enter a 'tab' char -- this enters a real 'Tab' not some random number of spaces
as in the HTML compose window
3. Try to use find/replace to replace tabs with some other char -- I was trying two spaces, specifically.
Actual Results:  
Nada. Zilch.  It seemed to find blank areas ... but not just where tabs were -- and replaced nothing

Expected Results:  
tab to be replaced by 2 spaces -- as typed.


works in gvim
;^)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps/semi related to bug 29086