By default, Mailplane binds ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ to "Newer Conversation" and "Older Conversation" (under the "Mail" menu), respectively. But this shadows OS X's system shortcuts <https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343> for "Move the text insertion point to the beginning/end of the document".
Similarly, Mailplane binds ⌘← and ⌘→ to "Next" and "Previous" (under the "Calendar" menu), but this shadows the system shortcuts for "Move the text insertion point to the beginning/end of the current line". This is a tremendous usability problem. Users of these system shortcuts come to expect them to work in every app that offers a blinking cursor in a text field. Having them move you to a whole other conversation or month is surprising, disrupts what you were in the middle of trying to do, and makes it hard to get back to where you were. To work around this, you can go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts, select Application Shortcuts, click the + button, and then add overrides one by one for these shortcuts in Mailplane. But this is a huge hassle and many users aren't likely to do this. Gmail and Google Calendar already offer perfectly good, nay, much better, shortcuts for "Newer Conversation" / "Older Conversation" and "Next" / "Previous": j and k! (See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=enand https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37034?hl=en.) Can Mailplane stop overriding important system keyboard shortcuts? It's good that Mailplane offers menu items for these commands so that they're accessible via mouse, but since there are already better keyboard shortcuts for them built into Gmail and Gcal, Mailplane shouldn't add a different set of shortcuts that override basic movement while editing text. If Mailplane is going to add redundant keyboard shortcuts for these at all, it should at least try to make sure they're not claimed by anything else. Thanks for reading. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mailplaneapp. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
