VM

Active URL's in quoted text misbehave

Bug #889338 reported by Uday Reddy
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Triaged
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Bug Description

Robert Marshall reports (viewmail-bugs, 2011-11-09)

If I attempt to reply to a message where the first line is a url, I
end up in a composition buffer with the lines

Robert Marshall writes:
 > http://www.whatever

If I put the cursor on the start of the Robert Marshall line and
attempt to insert a line (tut, top posting!) I see 'sending URL to
Netscape ... Done' and firefox (set to my browser) attempts to visit

file:///home/robert/Mail/Robert%20Marshall%20writes:%20%3E%20http://www.whatever

Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

Arik says:

I see the same behaviour, it only has been a problem when replying to
a message where a link is the first thing. In order to avoid these
strange things I have to go the to message separator and do open-line
to move the link down.

Anyhow, it comes from decoding the mime layout in a otherwise normal
to VM fashion (i.e. not special reply decoding). However there is a
point in the reply code where read-only text properties are removed
(around line 442 in vm-reply.el). I wonder if it would good to remove
these overlays at the same time.

Revision history for this message
Uday Reddy (reddyuday) wrote :

I think it is sort of acceptable that the active URL's are left as they are
in the quoted text. But it is a problem that the surrounding characters are
leaking into the active overlays.

Uday Reddy (reddyuday)
Changed in vm:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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