lör 2002-09-21 klockan 18.50 skrev Dan Winship:
fre 2002-09-20 klockan 15.20 skrev Not Zed:alphanumeric keys now jump to matches in the column you're currently sorting on.Which makes it pretty useless.. at least for me. I sort on Date and if evey date is Yesterday ##:## it doesnt mather how many times I press Y I could just press Down.Yeah, the idea isn't that people are going to normally sort on a column where this is useful, it's that IF you want to quickly find a message with a given subject or from a particular user, you can sort by that column, type a few keys, and then sort back to your standard order. This is how Outlook behaves, and in usability testing on 1.0, this is how every single ex-Outlook user that we tested tried to find messages when given a task like "find the message from bob" (where they were "supposed" to use the search bar). So we put it into 1.2 since we were only using three letter keys before, and one of them didn't make any sense except to Pine users anyway.
Let the EX-Outlook users know in a good way that there's a searchbar instead... its alot faster to click once in the searchbar print what to search for and then enter. than it is to click a specific column and then print what to search for. It's easier finding messages from "Tom" if you just use the searchbar. Why didnt they make any sense? I've never used pine that much but N for next is pretty obvious, so is P for previous too, and Q for quickview. What I'd really like is these "features" to be added as OPTIONS which could be turned off and that I can specify my own short-cut keys for commands that have them.
Yes, the current next/prev/toggle preview bindings totally suck, but that doesn't mean that the new behavior isn't useful or that they can't be fixed.
I think that moving the ` key away should be first priority before 1.2 comes out. AND make it lock on the KeySum instead so that I can use the § key where the ` is on an american keyboard. So everyone uses the same key but different character. But this would ofcourse be fixed if I could specify my own short-cuts..
-- Dan
-- Mårten Woxberg <marwo264 student liu se> University of Linköping
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