[MlMt] A couple of things about the inbox window(?)

[Randall Meadows]

On 5 Aug 2016, at 7:07, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:

> First, I’m not sure that’s what it’s called, but I mean the main 
> window with the list of messages.
>
> Highlight a message in the list. Do a shift-up/down arrow. The message 
> above/below the one you’re on gets added to the selection. Perfect. 
> Now cmd-shift-arrow. The same thing happens. What I would expect to 
> happen is that the whole set of messages above/below gets added to the 
> selection. Mail.app doesn’t do this either, FWIW. I guess this is 
> because I expect cmd-arrow to move me to the top or bottom of a list 
> of items, which it doesn’t here, just like it moves me to the top or 
> bottom of a body of text. (In the Finder, cmd-arrow moves you to the 
> enclos-ing/-ed folder.)

Just a SWAG, but when selecting, ⌘ takes on a different meaning, 
typically allowing a disjoint selection.  No idea if that's what going 
on here, but might be an explanation for your expectation.