Comment 13 for bug 1085

(In reply to comment #6)
> we'd want to make it so the user can select email addresses on left click drag.
>
> but we want to keep the right click ability to get that context menu, which is
> per address.
>
> We also want to keep the "linkified" look, where it changes color on mouseover.
>
> for extra credit (beyond the scope of of this bug) would be making it so you can
> select multiple headers at once.
>
> My gut tells me that is much harder.
>
> nominating.

We could add an item such as "Copy Email Address With Name" (or one with a
better wording) to the context menu. The user doesn't have the freedom to drag
and select arbitrarily portions of the name, but this "Copy Email Address With
Name" would be good enough for most cases and not that hard to implement.

The exact semantics would be to copy the MIME-decoded content (exactly as
displayed in the header pane) of the item chosen by the user, to solve the
problem addressed in comment #10, e.g. to copy "Karljürgen Xxxxxxxxx
<email address hidden>", not "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Karlj=FCrgen_Xxxxxxxxx?=
<email address hidden>" to the clipboard.