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Re: [OT] Thunderbird duplicates leading dot

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Christoph Becker wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Gregor Kofler wrote:
>>> Am 2012-08-03 00:56, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn meinte:
>>>> […] a long-standing bug in your Thunderbird prevents you from seeing
>>>> [the
>>>> code as posted (at least upon quoting it), which is syntactically
>>>> correct as it has only one dot at the front.
>>> Interesting. My TB (also 14.0 on Ubuntu 12.04) doesn't show this bug.
>>> Both the OP and a quoted OP don't display an erroneous second dot.
>> Apparently it is a heisenbug; I could neither reproduce it with Icedove
>> 10.0.5 nor find anything about it in Bugzilla.  It may have to do with
>> settings, in particular with format=flowed.  I have encountered this bug
>> years ago, before I stopped using Thunderbird as newsreader, so I do not
>> remember if I fixed it and, if yes, how.
>> 
> If I'm not mistaken, it is the bug reported in
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170727> (see Comment 1 and
> 5). A leading dot is only duplicated in messages downloaded for offline
> reading. So I switched to online reading, what works fine.

I have added your case and observations to that bug, and voted on it.  
Thanks for your feedback.


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mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content gnoirzox <gnoirzox@gmail.com> - 2012-08-02 16:39 +0000
  Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-02 20:02 +0200
  Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-08-02 21:19 +0200
    Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-03 00:56 +0200
      Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-08-03 12:12 +0200
        Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-08-03 12:49 +0200
          [OT] Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2012-08-04 21:49 +0300
            Re: [OT] Re: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-08-05 01:20 +0200
        [OT] Thunderbird duplicates leading dot (was: mootools 1.12: fx.slide doesn't show the div's content) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-04 20:25 +0200
          Re: [OT] Thunderbird duplicates leading dot Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-08-05 01:15 +0200
            Re: [OT] Thunderbird duplicates leading dot Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-08-05 14:01 +0200

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