Open Bug 1433942 Opened 7 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Composer gobbles newlines after rewrapped quoted text

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(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

52 Branch
defect

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(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: psychonaut, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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(2 files)

Attached file Sample e-mail foo.eml (deleted) —
If you rewrap quoted lines in the composer and then send or save the message, the first newline after the quotation disappears. Reproducibility: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the attached e-mail foo.eml and hit reply. The composer window appears. 2. Position the cursor at the end of the first paragraph of quoted text. Hit Enter a couple times, type "foo", and press Enter. 3. Select the first paragraph of quoted text, plus the following newline, and press Ctrl+R to wrap it. The composer window should now appear as in the attached screenshot. 4. Save the message as a draft, or send the message. 5. Examine the sent message in the draft or sent folder, or in the inbox of the receiving account. Expected results: 6. The message should appear as it does in the composer window screenshot, with a blank line between the first paragraph of quoted text and the "foo" paragraph. Observed results: 6. There is no blank line between the first paragraph of quoted text and the "foo" paragraph.
Attachment #8946266 - Attachment mime type: message/rfc822 → text/plain
Yes, I can reproduce this with TB 52 and TB 60 Daily. I'd say that goes onto the long is of problems with Rewrap. Have you tried just do rewrap the first line: > Conclusion + Abstract still missing. I could write one of them, but there are still some open questions for me. That doesn't appear to work at all.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Yes, there are plenty of other problems with Rewrap, including its refusal to rewrap some lines. I think a lot of these are already covered in other bug reports. The particular case of the composer eating newlines after rewrapped text is a problem that's unique and common enough that I thought I'd raise a separate issue.
(In reply to Tristan Miller from comment #3) > Yes, there are plenty of other problems with Rewrap, including its refusal > to rewrap some lines. I think a lot of these are already covered in other > bug reports. Quite so https://mzl.la/1OhgRLb - there's even an old meta bug 192905 :(

Still reproducible in Thunderbird 60.6.1.

Blocks: rewrap

It doesn't get fixed by magic, so if you don't see any activity here, it will still not work.

In general, in plain text mode, editing of quoted text doesn't work properly. I can't figure out if it has to do with how the original text was sent. It seems like some cellphones send text that behaves strangely when edited in plain text mode.

For example, if I want to edit the quoted text, inserting a quote character doesn't work. It wraps the text in a strange way and often leaves a blank line with only the quote character. Rewrapping the text doesn't work.

This has been a problem for a long time - since v90 or so. It really needs to be fixed since it makes plain text mode less useful.

-Joe

Severity: normal → S3
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