Re: [Evolution] Jumping emails

[Lonnie Borntreger <email borntreger com>]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 11:10 -0400, Chris Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 19:38 -0700, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:15 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > Am Dienstag, den 18.07.2006, 00:48 -0700 schrieb Lonnie Borntreger:
> > > > In the message view window, or in the message preview pane: Whenever I
> > > > get an html email with images, the view jumps to the bottom of the
> > > > message each time it retrieves, or attempts to retrieve, an image.  This
> > > > is very annoying.
> > >
> > > sounds like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307005
> >
> > Yep. Sounds related, but the emails I have trouble with don't have an
> > animated image.  Turning off the caret mode like Chris suggested (which
> > I don't ever remember turning on) seems to have solved this problem.
>
> Same here, unless I somehow pressed F7 at some point, I have no use for
> caret mode and wouldn't have it on. However, If I see my emails doing
> this auto-scroll jump I now immediately just hit F7.  I've never
> bothered asking/filing it as a bug because I'm not sure if that's how
> it's supposed to behave.

There's a good chance, now that I think of it, that I could accidentally
hit F7.  I remapped the message preview keystroke to F8 (to match
Thunderbird), and I turn the preview pane on and off quite regularly.  I
could easily "fat finger" it every now and then.

Lonnie