C. A. Niemiec said: Thing here is that I really think you make a mistake by thinking that the cursor is the key to convenient line by line navigation. I think it would make more sense to add a qualifier key, like shift, to make the arrow keys to casue movement in this fashion instead. > If not, then by default it should be at the top so those who do >work that way have less work to do No you don't have less work at all. Explain how you can move line by line if the cursor defaults to top? You'd have to scroll to the bottom first, before any movement could happen. Where's the gain?
>Why should I have to always be hitting alt-arrow for every message? You don't have too. you have to ask yourself what you want to gain from whatever you're suggesting. I think it's a bit unclear, because you focusing on a not that useful solution. >With the cursor at the top everyone wins. What do we others that don't want this gain? Because IMHO the problem is too small and a too personalized preference in order to be noteworthy of fixing. I do agree line by line movement can useful, but NOT that the cursor is the key to the solution. There *ARE* tools for navigation already, though there could be improvements I guess. Not everyone can have their exact prefered way of doing things in every app. I suggest you look into specific shortcuts apps instead that possibly could translate the keys you want to use to the keys that actually give the effect you want. Or come up with a more attractive suggestion, like something that goes well with expectations from other apps while maintaining the legacy of PowerMail and specifically email apps in general. >Space bar should scoot just 5-6 lines of text at a time, not a >full page. Or with shift-space it could do that. >When the cursor reaches the bottom, they either try to keep the >cursor in the middle of the page...or jump just a few (5-6) lines (Apple's TextEdit), >or even go line-by-line And? PowerMail does this as well. But the *cursor* is not a navigational tool just because you can scroll line by line. I suggest you better decribe the problem and NOT defend the solution, so that we can note that your problem is worthy of recognition. Redefine the problem and there can be a better solution that would work for others as well. PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD
