[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>> I believe it would be >>>the correct thing to do in 90%+ of the time. Then you only have to >>>manually change it less than one time out of tem (if my estimation is >>>correct). >> >>Exactly. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this thinking. :) >> >>FWIW, I never use the find-by-content to begin with, mainly for two >>reasons: a) indexing the database is slow and pre-emptive, and also >>seems to make PM prone to crashing (from anecdotal evidence), and b) it >>doesn't really work anyway (see copious amounts of list archives on the >>subject). >> >>-b > >Nevertheless, most of my messages are small. So, despite the problems, I >search the whole database probably 5 times for every time I search within >a message. > >So, I would prefer that the default not be changed. Maybe add a preference?
This new feature that Ben and I are requesting, I believe, would not not negatively impact how you are working at all, but that depends on how you work. Think about what window is being displayed when you get the urge to search the whole database. Is it a message window? Or is it the browser window? If it's a message window, then our feature request will cause you pain. The tab will end up being wrong 4 out of 5 times. If it's the browser window, then the correct tab is always pre-selected. As it is now, the wrong tab is always pre-selected whenever you want to search just a message. I would even argue that if the program is always going to pre-select a tab, then it's choosing the wrong one. Why? The penalty for searching the current message is small because a search of the current message is very fast. In other words, the search will be over before you realize you've used the wrong tab. However, a search of the entire database can be cost a lot more depending on the size of your database. My database probably has over 10,000 messages in it. So it takes a few seconds to search it all. Every time I make the wrong tab choice, I realize it well before the search completes, and since there's no way I know to abort the search, I have to wait until the search finishes to begin correcting my mistake. Or, is it really *my* mistake? A preference would make everyone happy I guess, provided it was the right preference. I suppose the preference should be three-way: 1) Always pre-select "by Content" (the default, and what you prefer) 2) Always pre-select "in Current Message" 3) Dynamically pre-select based on what kind of window is frontmost. (my suggestion) For what it's worth, I think Claris Emailer did their find the way I'm suggesting. --Bill
