88635 - Cursor doesn't respond to arrow keys in mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 88164

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Dave Buckles]

I was composing an e-mail, and, as I typed, the lines would wrap when they
exceeded the width of the window (situation normal).  The last line, as is
typical, did not fill the entire width of the window.  When manipulating the
cursor with the arrow keys, the cursor responded correctly to all instructions,
with one exception: if the cursor was moved "down" from the second-to-last line
to the last line, AND if it was positioned beyond (left-to-right) the end of the
bottom line, the cursor would descend one line, and move back to the end of the
last line (the expected behavior); however, when forced to the end of the line
in that way, it would not respond to the left or right arrow key.  If moved up
to the preceding line, left one character, then back down, it worked correctly
(moving up would move it to a position directly above the end of the line, so
the starting conditions were changed).  The prerequisite condition for this bug
is that the cursor be forced back to the end of a line by moving it down from a
position beyond the end of the line.  This bug was experienced with a variable
width font (in this case, Times New Roman) as well as a fixed-width font
(Courier, I believe).  A similar problem exists when using the right-arrow key
to move the cursor to the end of the line--you can move to the end of the line,
but you cannot move beyond.  When you reach the end from the "side" (instead of
from above), you can still move back.  Also, for both bugs, the end of the line
must be a newline (Enter) character; cursor movement is correct when the line
simply wrapped.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Please always include Mozilla build ID in bug-reports.

Also please consider studying the bug writing guidelines found at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html and using the
Bugzilla helper to report bugs:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html

Comment 2

[Dave Buckles]

Sorry about that; must've been a brain ****.  I'm using v. 0.9.2, build ID
2001062815.

Comment 3

[Sheela Ravindran]

This is a dup of bug 88164

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88164 ***

Comment 4

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified as dup