71806 - Can't overwrite one character by paste (plaintext)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Koike Kazuhiko]

Can't overwrite one character by paste in mail compose window.

abcdef

(1) Select 'c' and hit Ctrl+C.
(2) Select 'e' and hit Ctrl+V. 'e' is pasted, not 'c'.

This is reproducable with Win and Linux build.

Comment 1

[laurel]

Reproducible only with plain text composition window, mar12 commercial trunk
build.  HTML window is fine, doesn't happen in editor, either.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

what about the plain text editor?  can it be reproduced there?
what build is being used?  (hint: today's is NOT a good day for mail compose or 
Composer)

Comment 3

[laurel]

As I mentioned, I'm using mar12 build.  Currently 2001-03-12-04 win98.  I'm not
sure what you mean by the plain text editor.  I did indeed reproduce in the
plain text message compose window.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

OK, I understand this now.
If the selection (in step 2) is more than 1 character or just a caret, everything 
is fine.  But if the selection is one character then the paste fails to do 
anything (except remove the selection).

This is probably an editor bug since I can reproduce it in the plaintext editor 
(Debug menu in Composer).

cc kin and joe since they may have an idea on this bug.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->editor

Comment 6

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to the right person.

Comment 7

[Joe Francis]

snarf

Comment 8

[Joe Francis]

fixed

Comment 9

[michael wendell]

Verified on build 2001110903