Thunderbird : Compose in HTML temporarily instead of plain text
Is there a way to allow HTML composition temporarily, while the account settings has been configured as plain text ?
On google, couple of things turned up:
- Holding down the shift key while clicking on reply (disadvantage : no keyboard shortcut)
- Use HTML mode, TB will automatically use plain text when there is no HTML used (disadvantage : sometimes the thread is in HTML, so the HTML will be used when I want to use plain text)
Searched addons, but did not find anything.
Solution 1:
You could try using Keyconfig to create a keyboard shortcut equivalent to shift+reply.
Solution 2:
check out this article...
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29
Solution 3:
Further to BenA's answer (sorry, I can't comment yet) about Keyconfig a couple of useful links on mozillaZine:
- Keyconfig manual
- Thunderbird codes
and the actual code relevant to this question is MsgNewMessage({shiftKey: true}) or replace MsgNewMessage part with one of MsgForwardAsAttachment, MsgForwardMessage, MsgNewMessage, MsgReplyGroup, MsgReplySender, or MsgReplyToAllMessage.