When I reply to a message using Mozilla 0.9.1's plain-text
editor, it often does some strange tricks with the line
spacing.
For example: If I start my reply on the very next line after
the quoted section, Mozilla usually silently inserts a blank
line between the last quoted line and the first line of my
reply when it sends the message. It doesn't always get it
right, though: sometimes the blank line gets inserted after
my first line instead of before it.
If I leave a single blank line between the end of the
quoted section and my reply, Mozilla often, but not always,
inserts another one. Then when another Mozilla plain-text
user reads the message, they see _three_ blank lines,
because Mozilla also seems to insert blanks before and
after quoted bits when it displays a message.
And sometimes, although far from always, pressing the down
arrow from the last line of the quoted section takes me
down two lines instead of one, leaving a blank line that
I can't edit. (I assume that one is intentional.)
Most of these tricks are annoying. The plain-text editor
should not (imho) alter the text you're typing into it,
and should not insert blank lines either when sending or
when displaying a message. (Similarly, when I cut-&-paste
within the plain-text editor, it usually condenses multiple
spaces into single spaces, amongst other nasty habits.)
This was a problem in 0.9 as well. I haven't managed to
find any bugs about it, which is why I wonder if it's
intentional behaviour that I just don't understand.
Chris
