[MlMt] Possible bug: switching into Markdown mode saves a draft without prompting

John Cooper mailmate at coopercontent.com
Wed Oct 18 14:21:35 EDT 2017


Now this is a great bug report! Takes me back to my early career as a 
tester on Aldus PageMaker 5. :)

Sam Hathaway wrote (at 11:09 on 18 Oct 2017):

> ## Scenario 1: No Markdown, works as expected ##
>
> ### Steps to replicate ###
>
> 1. Reply to a text-only message.
> 2. Type some non-Markdown text.
> 3. Hit Cmd-W to close.
> 4. Click “Don’t Save”.
>
> ### Expected/actual result ###
>
> * No message is added to the Drafts folder.
>
> ## Scenario 2: Markdown, draft is silently saved ##
>
> ### Steps to replicate ###
>
> 1. Reply to a text-only message.
> 2. Type some Markdown text, e.g. `Hello, *world!*`
> 3. Type some more text, e.g. `Goodbye, world!`
> 4. Hit Cmd-W to close.
> 5. Click “Don’t Save”.
>
> ### Expected result ###
>
> * No message is added to the Drafts folder.
>
> ### Actual result ###
>
> * There is a new message in the Drafts folder that contains the state 
> of the message _at the time that it was converted to Markdown format._ 
> In this example, it will contain `Hello, *world!*` but _not_ `Goodbye, 
> world!`.
>
> ## Notes ##
>
> * If you close the message right after it switches into Markdown mode, 
> MailMate doesn’t prompt for whether to save the message, but the 
> draft is created anyway.
> * This probably happens with new messages (not replies) as well. I 
> haven’t checked.
> * You probably need to have Markdown turned on in the first place for 
> this to happen.
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