We're exhibiting the evil old long-short-long-short bug again! Read a plaintext message that has lines wrapped at around 72 columns, and reply to it in plaintext. Some of the quoted lines will be wrapped. I was going to try debugging this, but you've turned off the debug menu in the compose window, so I can't see what the html looks like. The editor's InsertAsQuotation is supposed to take care of that automatically, by turning wrapping off for quoted text, so if you're calling InsertAsQuotation, it's my bug (but please tell me how to turn on the debug menu so I can see what's going on). If you're not calling InsertAsQuotation, is there any reason why not (something that you need from it that we're not providing)?

Akkana, you reactivate the debug menu by changing the line #362 in messengercompose.xul: replace <!-- menu id="debugMenu"/ --> by < menu id="debugMenu"/ > I will look if we correctly insert the text tomorrow.

Thanks for the info on the debug menu! And it turns out that mail compose is calling the editor's InsertHTML function, so I'll take a look at what it's doing.

This is really evil. Marking M14 because it's more important than most of the M15 list.

Adding a beta1 keyword ... even if it gets PDT-'ed, plaintext mail seems important enough that I'd like to see it on the radar (and I bet the fix won't be all that hard).

Putting on PDT- radar for beta.

Requesting PDT re-evaluation of this bug: it's a regression, it makes plaintext mail nasty to use (you have to do a lot of hand-editing to make things look right), and it turns out that the fix is straightforward (a minor addition to the text editing citation-splitting rules). Joe and I have tested it on Mac and Linux, and I'll be running with it in my tree to test it further. Please, can we check the fix into beta1?

Putting on PDT+ radar because fix is in hand.

Thanks! Adding date, will check it in tomorrow.

The tree is horked today and it's fairly clear that there's not going to be much chance to test and check in, so I'm updating the date in the status whiteboard. The fix works as far as I can tell, but I'd like to run with it for a while, and get a few other eyes testing it as well.

Fixed! Plaintext quotations should work much better now, at least if Rich is allowed to check in the fix for bug 29267.

inux (2000-02-29-08 M15) Mac (2000-02-29-08 M15) Win32 (2000-02-29-08 M15) Read a plaintext message that has lines wrapped at around 72 columns, and reply to it in plaintext. The quoted lines wraps fine. I do not see lines wrap long and short as explains to me by Akkana.