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

[John D. Muccigrosso]

On 5 Aug 2016, at 11:51, Randall Meadows wrote:

> 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.

Yes, when clicking, ⌘ enables discrete selection while shift does 
continuous, but with arrows, shift enables select and ⌘ makes the 
movement go “all the way” in whatever direction you’re going. This 
works with text and I guess my expectation is that it would work here in 
the same way.

John