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

[John D. Muccigrosso]

On 5 Aug 2016, at 13:17, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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...

And I didn’t know about the option, uh, option. Thanks!

John