On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 12:38, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > Is this also new in CVS? In 1.1.0.99 '<' and '>' don't do anything (and > > no shortcuts are listed besides prev/next in the Actions->Go To menu. > > they work for me. And yes, the keybindings ar also in the menu (but they > say '.' and ',' instead, because well that is the real key that gets > used but < and > make it easier to remember)
Ok, I see now. I was distinguishing between , and <, and between . >
(after all, there is a difference between Cntl-R and Cntl-Shift-R) and
also between Next/Prev Message and Next/Prev Unread Message. I think
both are important enough to have short keyboard accellerators.
> yea, looks like it was disabled for the folder-tree but it still works
> for the message-list (and btw, 'q' was just an example, if you have no
> message subject/sender/whatever starting with 'q' then it won't work)
I'm not sure this is the best arrangement. Having both the folder list
and the message list selectable in this way would be very confusing, and
doing it for just one of them would introduce a possibly confusing
asymmetry, and we would still have to do something for the other. But
unless I misunderstand the scheme, I have three other objections:
1. It's not very intuitive that hitting "n" would select the next
message with an "n" in it. This is the kind of feature that a
user would just have to discover on his/her own.
2. It would take up all the "good" keybindings. Going to the next
message with an "N" or "X" in it would have a very short binding,
and as a result "Next/Prev [Unread] Message", "Next/Prev Folder",
"Forward Message", "Reply", "Reply to all", "Move To Folder", etc.,
will all have less obvious, and more awkward bindings, if any at
all. Ideally the more basic and commonly used commands would have
easier bindings.
3. It lacks configurability - what if you want to go to the next
message whose To:/From:/Subject:/Date: matches some string?
Anyway, it would seem better to just have "Go To Folder" and "Jump to
Message" dialogs with full keyboard acceleration. Then (a variant of)
the "Go To Folder" dialog could be used with "Move To Folder", and the
"Jump to Message" dialog could have different checkboxes with options
like "Search Subject", "Search Sender", etc. These dialogs could be
bound to, say, "G" and "J", and Next/Prev message could have intuitive
bindings like "N" and "P".
--
Ben Escoto
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