[Bug 1085]

[Jorgk-bmo]

(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: <56557BE1.7080708 at mozilla.com> <56572E25.2090809 at mozilla.com> <mailman.7520.1448558040.18044.dev-platform at lists.mozilla.org> <565849AE.4060209 at mozilla.org> <6aSdneDGWYYqzsXLnZ2dnUU7-TednZ2d at mozilla.org> <d3b0746e-21f0-4154-8b32-0f6ca646585c at googlegroups.com> <Ufudncvw240V4cTLnZ2dnUU7-bednZ2d at mozilla.org> <mailman.7664.1448739760.18043.dev-platform at lists.mozilla.org>
newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
from: Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbosch at gmail.com>
to: dev-platform at lists.mozilla.org

OK, it can be sanitised down to:

Subject: Re: Dan Stillman's concerns about Extension Signing
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
From: Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbosch at gmail.com>
To: dev-platform at lists.mozilla.org

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
  gijskruitbosch at gmail.com
it should copy the full header:
  Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbosch at gmail.com>

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

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  selecting text in full header mode fails

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