OK, I'll bite: If the [Enter] key on the keyboard is really the [Return] key, as on an old style typewriter, then which key on the MacBook Pro is, in fact, the [Enter] key?
Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Buddy Brannan Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How To Remove The Preview Pane in the Mail Client? If you interact with the horizontal splitter above the preview pane, you can move it all the way down the screen so the preview pane isn't showing, which effectively eliminates it. Also, I should point out that the "enter" key isn't the enter key. It's the return key. The enter key is a different key entirely. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Anna, Terrence, and Others, > > I'll append some comments about using or removing the Preview pane in > Mail to your posts. > > Anna wrote: >>> Hi Mark and all, >>> >>> Just in case you haven't run across this, the Preview pane can be a >>> great way to read e-mail. When focused on a message header, press >>> VO-J >>> to move to your message. VO reads it. Then press VO-J to go back to >>> the list of messages, where you can delete the message, move it to a >>> folder, etc. The next message then gets focus. I don't know whether >>> this works in Snow Leopard, but I hope so, as I like reading -email >>> this way. > > Anna, one reason that some people like to remove the Preview pane is > the fact that messages are marked as "read" if you navigate with arrow > keys through entries in the messages table when the preview pane is > enabled, even when you haven't had time to read them or navigated in > error. If you remove the Preview pane you can still read the messages > by pressing enter to bring up the message in its own window, then > reply, forward, move, etc. and when you are returned to the messages > table you can use your arrow keys to move to the next message. Of > course VO-J doesn't work if you disable the pane, but this is simply > an alternative way to read mail. (Incidentally, VO-J is also very > useful to jump between playlist and songs table in iTunes). The > other reason some users like Anne like to remove the Preview pane has > to do with making sure that spam messages are not in any way counted > as "read". I'm less clear on this point and whether such precautions > are necessary, given the way that Apple Mail operates, but it > certainly allows you to delete suspect messages "unread". > > and Terrence replied: > >> There is that. But what if I'd rather have more space to see the >> list >> of messages and read messages in their own window? Is there no way >> to >> do this? > > Terrence, if you press enter from the messages table you will bring > the message that has focus up in its own window. If you just want to > read it and take no action you can close the window with Command-W > when you're done. Otherwise, a reply that's sent off or other action > will automatically close that window and return you to the messages > table. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
