Re: Selecting all messages in mailbox

[mpiktas <mpiktas delfi lt>]

Hi,

> 
> Following up on my own request...Alternatively, we could have a 
> ctrl_A_cb hooked to the `Edit => Select _All' menu item, and direct it 
> to either mark_all_cb or select_all_cb depending on the current focus; 
> this would respond quite directly to Mpiktas's original request.
> 

> But...that would change the meaning of the `Edit' menu. Currently, the 
> `copy' and `select-all' entries both refer exclusively to message 
> content--would it be confusing to have a `copy' entry that acts only on 
> content, and a `select-all' entry whose meaning depends on the current 
> keyboard focus?
> 
> Of course, we already have the `find' entries that act on messages in 
> the current mailbox, and the `filters' entries that act on all filters, 
> regardless of mailbox, so I guess you could argue that the menu is 
> already multi-purpose.
> 
> Thoughts?



If Ctrl+A selected all messages or all message text depending on focus, 
only this keybinding would be multipurpose. Now it isn't. It looks 
(visually looking at menus) that it is assigned to 2 actions 
Edit->Select All and Mailbox->Select All. But if I press Ctrl+A 
currently only first action (according to code presented in previous 
letter) is performed, that it is all message text is selected. So if 
Ctrl+A would be interpreted differently depending on focus no 
multipurpose menus would be needed.

Mpiktas