Tim Lapin said:

>Who said anything about "draft"?  I was referring to incoming messages. 
You didn't specify and the cursor is typically not a navigational tool
for incoming messages, but an editing tool. You don't typically edit incoming.

>Picture this:
>
>You have received a message that is more than on page long and you hit
>the down arrow to move down a few lines (No, I don't like using "Page
>Down" when all I want to see is the next few lines).  Instead of
>scrolling down those few lines, nothing happens.  Why, because the cursor
>is actually at the bottom of the message, instead of the top!
You can speed the cursor to the last (or first) line with alt-arrow.
Then go down your few lines.
It's not PowerMail you have a problem with, it's a systemwide OS
guideline that you want to break with. The "cursor" was never meant to
be navigation tool, unless you're editing. The interface of Mac OS X is
not primarily based on Unixen, which may be your inspiration here, but
on sound Mac OS tradition. I question you wanting to enforce a break
with a widespread convention for an application-specific solution in
presence of other better adapted tools.

Use the navigational tools there is instead. Besides speeding up the
cursor movement and page down/up you can also hit the space bar, which
is very accessible. If you are at the end of the message you will only
see a few more lines or move down one page.


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