It didn't take me long to find a bug in Leopard

1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
contextual menu.
3. The selected text is unselected.

The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther and
Tiger.

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In article <michelle->,
Michelle Steiner <> wrote:

> 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> contextual menu.
> 3. The selected text is unselected.
>
> The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther and
> Tiger.

You're not alone:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...31/m/343002228
831

Lots of reports coming in of weird stuff. It's to be expected, of
course. Everything this complex ships with bugs.

Bob Campbell

In article <michelle->,
Michelle Steiner <> wrote:

> 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> contextual menu.
> 3. The selected text is unselected.
>
> The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther
> and Tiger.

Did they fix the horribly bad threading in Mail? For some reason Apple
seems unable to manage a simple technology that's been mastered for a
couple of decades or more in newsreaders and in other mail clients.

In article <261020072221119493%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> > 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> > 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> > contextual menu.
> > 3. The selected text is unselected.
> >
> > The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther
> > and Tiger.
>
> Confirmed. Bug ID# 5563143 filed.

Thanks. You saved me the trouble of filing it.

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In article <261020072243148831%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> > Thanks. You saved me the trouble of filing it.
>
> File! Duplicate reports count!

Oh, all right. It's done.

BTW, the bug introduced in Tiger that prevents Apple-scripting the
creation of a signature still exists. It's been there for two and a
half years now.

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In article <michelle->,
Michelle Steiner <> wrote:

> 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> contextual menu.
> 3. The selected text is unselected.
>
> The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther and
> Tiger.


Why should it remain selected? Maybe it was a bug before.

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In article
<nospam.m-m->,
M-M <nospam.m-> wrote:

> > 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> > 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> > contextual menu.
> > 3. The selected text is unselected.
> >
> > The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther and
> > Tiger.
>
>
> Why should it remain selected? Maybe it was a bug before.

1. Because clicking on a menu without selecting anything from the menu
should not change anything.

2. Because one of the options in that menu is "reply to sender". In
previous versions, choosing that would create the reply message with
only the selected text in the original being quoted in the reply. Now
it quotes the entire original message.

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In article <271020070053412335%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> > BTW, the bug introduced in Tiger that prevents Apple-scripting the
> > creation of a signature still exists. It's been there for two and
> > a half years now.
>
> File an update... I did that on several of my open bug reports that
> weren't resolved in 10.5

Curiously, that bug does not appear in the "My originated problems"
section any more. Two other bugs, one reported in May 04, and one in
Jan 05, are the only ones still left. I'll file a new bug report.
*sigh*

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In article <271020070053412335%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone. ca>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:

> > BTW, the bug introduced in Tiger that prevents Apple-scripting the
> > creation of a signature still exists. It's been there for two and
> > a half years now.
>
> File an update... I did that on several of my open bug reports that
> weren't resolved in 10.5

I should have checked further; it's listed as a duplicate. I updated it.

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In article <michelle->,
Michelle Steiner <> wrote:

> In article
> <nospam.m-m->,
> M-M <nospam.m-> wrote:
>
> > > 1. In mail.app, select text in a received message.
> > > 2. Right click (or control-click) on the From address to display a
> > > contextual menu.
> > > 3. The selected text is unselected.
> > >
> > > The text should remain selected, and did remain selected in Panther and
> > > Tiger.
> >
> >
> > Why should it remain selected? Maybe it was a bug before.
>
> 1. Because clicking on a menu without selecting anything from the menu
> should not change anything.
>
> 2. Because one of the options in that menu is "reply to sender". In
> previous versions, choosing that would create the reply message with
> only the selected text in the original being quoted in the reply. Now
> it quotes the entire original message.


Re: your point #2 above:

In Tiger's Mail.app if I do as you describe, the entire message gets
quoted in the reply. The selected text gets ignored.


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