[MlMt] Suggestion for behavior of keys for alternative views

Paul Sture mailmt at chingola.ch
Wed May 30 02:12:25 EDT 2018


Good idea Mike. Seconded.

On 30 May 2018, at 4:05, Mike Hucka wrote:

> Currently, there are key bindings for next/previous alternatives 
> views.  I use these to flip between HTML and plain-text views of 
> messages.  It works fine, but for one annoyance: there are two keys, 
> and I can never remember which direction to go (is plain-text "next" 
> or "previous" from what I'm looking at?). The consequence is that I'm 
> regularly typing one of them and not getting any result, and have to 
> remember to go in the "other" direction.
>
> May I suggest a simple change?  Just make the behavior of the 
> view-change commands "wrap around", so to speak, so that you cycle 
> through the views in round-robbin fashion.  Then (1) key bindings can 
> stay the same, yet (2) people like me who are too dumb to remember 
> which direction to go don't have to worry about it -- they can just 
> press the same key to get the alternative views.
>
> Best regards,
> MH


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