572268 - Can't add blank lines in Lists

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[KitchM]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100330 Lightning/1.0b1 Shredder/3.0.4

Can't separate lists into separate sections thru the use of empty lines, either by paragraph or by number/bullet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start new message
2.Select a list type
3.Start entering information
4.Try using extra CR to obtain blank line
Actual Results:  
Extra CR causes end of list.

Expected Results:  
Should be able to add extra lines within the list.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Joe do you agree with that ?

Comment 2

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Joe do you agree with that ?

I don't think that anyone could argue that the editor is rich in UI features.
A "new paragraph" button would be great, and it's not easy, but not impossible to do what the reporter wants to do in the existing editor.

Kitchm,
What you need to do is look into an extension call "edithtml",or"stationary"
Either of those provide a way to edit the html directly and insert new paragraph tags. You also have limited capability to edit the source without an extension.
To do that, just use edit>>select all, then use Insert>>html.
Take a look at the paragraph tag pairs in my sample eml in attachments.
Is this the kind of formatting that you had in mind ?

Comment 3

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Attachment: Paragraphs in lists

Comment 4

[KitchM]

Joe, thanks for the effort, but I couldn't find the extensions and I couldn't view your attachment.

In any case, the Thunderbird editor is dead, so I'll have to wait to see where we'll go from here.

Comment 5

[KitchM]

Attachment: Firefox can't handle image

I couldn't view the attachment by Joe.  Here's what I saw.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Created attachment 476489 [details]
> Firefox can't handle image
> 
> I couldn't view the attachment by Joe.  Here's what I saw.

you need to set  your system to have Thunderbird open .eml attachments.

Comment 7

[KitchM]

Is it safe to open Microsoft email attachments?  For many years we have been warned against it, and Mozilla products don't use them.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Is it safe to open Microsoft email attachments?  For many years we have been
> warned against it

yes it's OK - not much different from opening a message received from the internet in thunderbird. And even if it wasn't your AV should catch anything.

> Mozilla products don't use them.

most certainly it does - do file > save as > file and you'll see it defaults to saving as .eml


(In reply to comment #4)
> Joe, thanks for the effort, but I couldn't find the extensions and I couldn't
> view your attachment.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=edithtml+or+stationary+thunderbird

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I don't recall intending to confirm this. 

It seems to me, in an editor as simple as this, that there should be no way to include a blank bullet item, and thus two CR should logically cause the list to terminate.  Otherwise, there would be no way to end of list.

Comment 10

[KitchM]

Even a proper "simple" editor should take any input from the keyboard as it is entered rather than forcing the user into deadends.  A blank like should always be a blank line and the turning off a list should be a separate manual selection from the menu bar.

Evidently, we are still dealing with the many shortcoming of the editor.  Based upon the responses, I see no way to fix this without a new one.

Comment 11

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away, back June 30)]

Shift+Enter creates a blank line without ending the list, just like any other editor. Isn't that what you're after?

Comment 12

[KitchM]

Thanks Magnus.  That key sequence does indeed work.  Thanks for pointing that out.

Comment 13

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

per comment 12