[MlMt] Search button behavior...

Daniel Mann daniel.mann at terranhost.com
Thu Aug 8 17:18:36 EDT 2013


On 8 Aug 2013, at 17:08, Steve Mayer wrote:
> On 8 Aug 2013, at 13:51, Seebs wrote:
>> Clicking "search" automatically jumps to All Messages. I almost never 
>> want this, because usually I think first of the mailbox I want to 
>> look in, and second of the possibility that I need to search it. Is 
>> there any way to change this behavior?
>
> I would assume that the Search button in the toolbar is bound to the 
> searchAllMessages command.  You can set up a custom keybinding to 
> 'mailboxSearch' to allow for the search to only occur in the selected 
> mailbox.  I have this in my custom keybinding plist file:
>
> "\\" = "mailboxSearch:";
>
> Thus, when the backslash key "\" is hit, the search is focused in the 
> currently selected mailbox.

If you enable Gmail-style keyboard shortcuts (included as a predefined 
custom keybindings file), the front slash key "/" starts a search in the 
current mailbox. It is defined in the provided Gmail.plist as:

	"/"	= "mailboxSearch:";

-Daniel Mann


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