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

[Bill Cole]

On 5 Aug 2016, at 12:42, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:

> 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.

Option-shift-arrow appears to do what you want. This is a standard 
behavior in list views.

Surprisingly, despite having used every MacOS version since System 
3.2/Finder 5.3, this is the first I've heard of the cmd-shift-arrow 
combination selecting "all the way" up or down, although it does indeed 
seem to have been standard behavior in text views forever. I guess I've 
met my minimum quota of new facts for the day...