642512 - Multiple Select (Ctrl-click) And Format Only Formats Last Part of Selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 485638

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[joe morris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9

If you hold down Ctrl and use the mouse to drag and select several sections of non-adjacent text in the editor window, and then choose to alter the formatting, the formating only applies to the last-selected block of text.  The correct behavior would be to format all of the selected text.  As an example of why this would be useful, I was using this to select all of my inline replies to another email, to change them to another color.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type in some text in to the body of an email.
2. Hold down Ctrl.
3. Use the mouse to select two non-adjacent words in the email body text.  Because you are holding down Ctrl, they both are highlighted.
4. Adjust the formatting:  either hit Ctrl-B for bold, or do Format->Text Color, etc.

Actual Results:  
Only the word you selected second will have this formatting applied to it.

Expected Results:  
Both selected words would have the formatting applied to them.

Comment 1

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

Are you sure the second selected word is formatted? For me only the first word is formatted, which is bug 485638

Comment 2

[joe morris]

You are correct, sir.  Marking as dupe.