(In reply to Roger Lynn from comment #53) > Thank you for looking at the bug, but I don't understand your reaction. How > is wanting to be able to select text and copy it "a geek feature"? The only > thing I can think of is because you're trying to solve the problem in the > wrong way, using a complicated geeky menu system. I've just looked at the initial patch from 2005. This places a lot of (ugly not useful) data onto the clipboard.
In comment #47 Thomas said: > in the long run I'd actually expect to be able to select any amount of header > text in-place While this is desirable, it's also hard to do right now. So I'll leave this bug for now and fix bug 327621 instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1085 Title: selecting text in full header mode fails Status in Mozilla Thunderbird: Confirmed Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: control+a does not select all the text in the full header window WORKAROUND: use View|Message Source instead of View|Headers|All To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/1085/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
