Closed
Bug 756422
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Selective reply quotes entire message if only one word is selected
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iron/17.0.1000.0 Chrome/17.0.1000.0 Safari/535.11
Steps to reproduce:
Selected (highlit) one word, clicked reply.
Actual results:
Entirety of original message was quoted.
Expected results:
Only the selected word should have been quoted. Quoting behaviour appears to be correct if more than one word is selected initially.
That seems to have been introduced on purpose (apparently assuming that marking a single quote isn't intentionally for "quote selection"). It can be changed using the mailnews.reply_quoting_selection.multi_word preference (defaults to true).
Good spot, that fixes it. Slightly bizarre default behaviour, has to be said. Designed to avoid some other boundary condition perhaps?
See the discussion leading up to bug 23394 comment #97. The rationale apparently was to avoid accidental selection-only quoting when someone just double-clicked on a white space or single word rather than intentional marking, so this indeed was intentional with the preference allowing to override that default behavior.
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Comment 4•13 years ago
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So Dteg, ok to close this worksforme?
quoting single word seems somewhat unlikely, and you can use the pref if needed
Yep, odd default to me, but I'm sure the rationale is sound.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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