Re: Selecting all messages in mailbox

[Lynn Kerby <lfk kerbit net>]

On 2003.02.19 02:39 Steffen Klemer wrote:
> 
> Am 2003.02.19 10:30 schrieb(en) Lynn Kerby:
>    >   > On 2003.02.19 01:00 Vaidotas Zemlys wrote:
>    > > Hi,
>    > >
>    > > I found out some things about selecting messages in mailbox, that I
>    > > think are not quite right. If I choose Mailbox->Select all and
>    > messages
>    > > in mailbox are threaded and not expanded only visible messages are
>    > > selected. Is this a bug or a feature? For example in Mozilla Mail 
> and
>    >   > > in Evolution all messages are selected (visible and not 
> visible).
>    > > Another thing - Ctrl+A selects all current message's  text no matter
>    > > where focus is. One would expect that if focus is on mailbox window
>    > > Ctrl+A should select all messages in a mailbox. Now there is no way
>    > to
>    > > select all messages in a mailbox using only keyboard. Is this 
> another
>    >   > > feature or a bug?
>    >   > What version of balsa are you using?  I'm using 1.4.2 and I can't 
> seem
>    > to
>    > select anything but all the messages in a mailbox using Ctrl+A.  I use
>    > the
>    > preview pane style layout and can't seem to get the focus on the
>    > message
>    > text to select it.
>    >   > Anyone interested in a patch that enables expansion/collapsing of 
> the
>    > selected thread via keyboard shortcuts?  I got really frustrated with
>    > having to reach for the mouse and click on the little plus boxes for
>    > each message in a thread and wrote some callbacks to do 
> expand/collapse
>    > on a single (or actually all 'selected') threads.  I'd be happier
> 
> have you tried <+> and <-> (on the keypad)

Yes I have, and all of the other accels that work fine in the mblist pane.
None work with the threads in the message list pane.

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Lynn Kerby <mailto:lfk@kerbit.net>