588872 - Feature to remove all links (hyperlinks)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[chrizilla]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60
Build Identifier: 

Suggestion: Implementing a feature allowing the user to remove all hyperlinks when composing a message.

(Microsoft Word has this feature.)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[chrizilla]

Just to clarify this:
The suggestion is to remove all hyperlinks WITHOUT their anchors (text, images).

(Obviously, deleting links + anchors is already possible by highlighting the link and pressing DEL or backspace)

My 2001 copy of MS Word XP (a word processing SFW, neither a mail client nor Internet browser) already had this feature a long time ago: just select the desired portion of the text and press CTRL+SHIFT+F9

So I would add to the suggestion, that the hyperlinks should be removed for the selected part of the e-mail only. If nothing is selected the whole document should be processed.

This should be a little-effort-high-reward feature.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

chrizoo, the good news is that TB already has this feature:
Select text with links in composition, then Format > Remove Links (Ctrl+Shift+K).