531609 - Write e-mail: switching easily between text mode and html one

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216132

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[julien.t43+mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2b3pre) Gecko/20091113 Namoroka/3.6b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; fr; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4

By default, I'm writing all my email in text only.
For now, it seems that if you want to switch to html temporarly (or reverse),
- you can change this in accounts preferences -> no way to do it for one e-mail
- you can't change it for en e-mail you are replying (?forwarding)

Note: I display e-mail in text also. doesn't seem to change if i display in simple html. probably depends on e-mail format.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put in text redaction mode
2. write/reply to an e-mail
3. try to switch in html
Actual Results:  
Non-intuitive and multiple actions
Menu "options" have "format" choice for html only, text only, both, auto-detect but it does not exist when writing in text mode

Expected Results:  
Menu "format" in "options" must be present in every redaction mode.

Comment 1

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

this feels like a duplicate for the plain text to html switch action