Re: select misbehavior

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:48:17 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <aisaac <at> american.edu> wrote:

AGI> i. Pick a keywork that will select several messages
AGI> in a message search.  The search selects all of
AGI> these messages *plus* any currently selected msgs.
AGI> 
AGI> Is this the desired behavior?

 No, certainly not. Please enter it into the bug tracker -- as I said, I
can't fix anything at all right now because my sources don't even compile
for the moment...

AGI> ii. There is a closely related user interface problem.  
AGI> 
AGI> Select several messages and mark them unread.  Now press ctrl-u to go
AGI> to the next unread msg.  The current behavior is to extend the select
AGI> to include the next unread message.  I think this is undesirable: I
AGI> cannot imagine the use of extending the selection this way.  I think
AGI> after ctrl-u *only* the one msg should be selected.

 Yes, sure. This behaviour isn't intentional.

AGI> At the level of minimum changes, I think a dialogue should open.
AGI> (E.g.: "Delete all 5 selected messages?")

 I'd hate this. Message deletion is a reversible action (in default
config), so why annoy the user with such questions?

AGI> Much better I think would be the following change in behavior.
AGI>     "d" deletes the current message (so this is always consistent)
AGI>     "ctrl-d" deletes the current selection

 I don't think it makes sense to make an exception for deleting: all other
commands operate either on the current message or on all selected ones, why
should this one be different?

AGI> iii. Related note: when multiple msgs are selected, 
AGI> try pressing <shift> to force the selection to the current msg.
AGI> No good.  In fact there seems to be no keystroke to change the
AGI> selection to the currrent msg.  I assume this is a bug.

 You may press up/down.

AGI> iv. Can we please have a keystroke for "move to next selected msg"?

 Is it really that useful? Of course, right now it might be because of the
way "Search" works but as I'm working on changing/fixing this, what else is
it useful for?

AGI> ctrl-u or else flag the selection and move to the next flagged msg
AGI> (with no available keystroke?? how about ctrl-*, which is currently
AGI> unassigned?)

 I'm not sure if this can be used as an accel in the Unix version but we
can always try...

 Regards,
VZ

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