920994 - Rewrap function broken

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Frank Winkler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20120920095701

Steps to reproduce:

Reply to a message so that quoted text appears and then start to type your reply. With new text filled in, "rewrap" the message.


Actual results:

The quoted text is being re-wrapped and formatted correctly

BUT

in addition, all soft line breaks in the new text are converted to hard ones!


Expected results:

The newly entered text should be left alone. And I'd like to be able to configure the quoteing chars, "> " by default.

Comment 1

[Frank Winkler]

This applies to all versions on all platforms.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

a dupe of one of these?

Comment 3

[Steve Chessin]

It was working (I think) in 68.0 and 68.1.0, but is not working (does nothing) in 68.1.1.

Comment 4

[Steve Chessin]

To be more specific: If I enter new text, such as this:

Hi Tom. How do I file a bug against Thundbird's rewrap function? It doesn't seem to work.

in a Compose window, it gets displayed as two lines:

Hi Tom. How do I file a bug against Thundbird's rewrap function? It
doesn't seem to work.

but if I double-click it to highlight it, I see that it is really one line, just wrapped.

If I then (while it is highlighted) click Edit-Rewrap, the highlight disappears (expected), but when I double-click the text again, the entire paragraph is highlighted, indicating that it is still really only one line.

In previous versions, each wrapped line would be converted to an actual line. This is not happening.

Comment 5

[Joseph Picone]

I frequently encounter messages in plain-text mode where rewrap doesn't change anything. I know this has something to do with hard line breaks being in the text. Is there any way to nicely rewrap text when rewrap doesn't work. An example for which rewrap doesn't work is attached below.

Should the rewrap feature allow me to rewrap this text and get rid of the hard line breaks when I select a region of text to rewrap? If not, it would be nice to have a function like this.

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I am not a virologist or epidemiologist, but here is my best understanding
of how this works. Remember that viruses are not living things but rather
pieces of genetic information. They can only reproduce when they take over
the genetic machinery of a cell and then use it to make more of themselves.
So the process usually is that the virus produces enough copies of itself
which kills the host cell, spread to other cells, and eventually to other
members of the specie (remember, if a virus like SARS is too successful in
killing its host immediately, then it won't spread!). This is how flu,
common cold, etc. work. Now if your immune system is strong relative to the
virus, you can overcome the infection; if not, you could end up with an
overreaction by your immune system that in the process of destroying the
virus damages your own tissues/organs as well. Now why do some people do
better than others (other than obvious reasons like having preexisting
conditions or compromised immune system) in responding to various viral
infections is anybody's guess, we just don’t know. We do know that immune
system of men, women, young, old, sick, healthy, etc. function differently
and different people are susceptible to different diseases (I think young
people were more usucaptible to SARS) but we don’t know exactly why. We will
know a lot more about COVID-19 soon.