(In reply to Thomas D. (currently busy elsewhere; needinfo?me) from comment #45) > Definitely yes. 17 votes, 8 duplicates across many years. And it's just a > freaking annoyance if any relevant text content which is right in front of > me cannot be copied and reused for other purposes. Email addresses clearly > qualify as relevant text content. Subject is already copyable.
I've thought about this a little over lunch. I don't think a "copy all headers" function is useful. I've just done it again and this is what I got on a message from the "dev-platform" mailing list. subject: Re: Dan Stillman's concerns about Extension Signing references: <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]> newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform from: Gijs Kruitbosch <[email protected]> to: [email protected] OK, it can be sanitised down to: Subject: Re: Dan Stillman's concerns about Extension Signing Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform From: Gijs Kruitbosch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Which average user would want an indigestible block of headers? I think those headers are for geeks. The normal user wants to copy what he/she sees. Since you can already copy the subject, in my opinion the following would be useful: Fix the "Copy Email Address" function to copy *all* the text that one sees. Instead of copying [email protected] it should copy the full header: Gijs Kruitbosch <[email protected]> It's happened to me so many times that I wanted to copy someone's name (and e-mail address). It wouldn't have helped in the slightest to place a big chunk of data I didn't need onto the clipboard since I wanted to paste the name inline. So should we close this bug here as "wontfix" and open another one to fix copying the e-mail address? For the record, the function CopyEmailNewsAddress is here: https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/base/content/msgHdrViewOverlay.js#1625 -- 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
