[MlMt] undo

David N. Blank-Edelman dnb at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Jan 9 09:54:42 EST 2014


Hi-

I have a quick UX question/observation. I can see arguments on both 
sides for this, so I'm curious if this is an intentional choice. I often 
read my mail from the built-in "Unread" smart folder. As I read mail, I 
delete it as I go. Sometimes if I'm not thinking, I'll press delete and 
then a split second later realize "oh, I do want that message". I then 
reach for the undo keystroke (command-Z).

The Undo command at this point will indeed undo the deletion but I can't 
tell because it never returns the message back to the Unread folder 
(i.e. if I want to see the message again I have to switch back to, say, 
the Inbox folder). There's no UI indication that the Undo Delete Message 
command has succeeded and somewhat worse, I don't get the message back 
in front of me immediately which is presumably what I want.

I realize that there are two things happening here. First, I've landed 
on a message and that has changed the "Seen" status of the message and 
second, I've deleted the message (presumably that's an IMAP \Deleted 
flag being applied to the message and then hidden from view). The Undo 
is perhaps legitimately just undoing the second operation and so the 
message doesn't deserve to come back to Unread. Still, the heart wants 
what the heart wants and in this case I'd love to see the message back 
under my cursor after an Undo. I realize this is such a little thing in 
such an awesome program but I've now noticed it a number of times in my 
first couple of weeks of using MailMate in earnest so I'd love to ask 
about it.

Benny, would you mind commenting on this?

      -- dNb


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