[MlMt] Move focus to message list

David Ledger MailMate at ivdcs.co.uk
Wed Mar 25 06:36:15 EDT 2020


On 2020-03-25 09:34, Stefan Buehler wrote:
> Dear MailMate experts,
> 
> I like using the keyboard and avoiding the mouse. This works very well 
> in MailMate, but I often have the problem that when I do a search or 
> jump to a mailbox, the focus is then in the search field or the mailbox 
> list, and not in the message list where I need it to be to deal with the 
> messages.
> 
> I can move focus along with the tab key, but it is a bit unpredictable 
> how many times I have to press it to come to the message list.
> 
> So, it would be great to have a keyboard shortcut to move focus to the 
> message list directly.
> 
> I thought I could achieve this with the last two keys (f and l) in the 
> keyboard shortcuts file like this:
> 
>      "l" = {
>          // 0 In+Sent
>          "0" = ( "goToMailbox:", "B6C88ECF-C0A4-4B8F-AD99-D29E352D60FD" );
> 
>          // 1 Wichtig
>          "1" = ( "goToMailbox:", "9C4141C4-5D02-46C2-8B86-82825D65C9BB" );
> 
>          // 2 Normal
>          "2" = ( "goToMailbox:", "81B7C934-ABAD-4349-8129-588BD1E94ED6" );
> 
>          // 3 Unwichtig
>          "3" = ( "goToMailbox:", "4272D314-52C4-4FF9-9FA9-1DE1BD287BC3" );
> 
>          // 4 Other unread (bereits in Folder abelegte Mails)
>          "4" = ( "goToMailbox:", "6FC03EEB-FBC4-4A91-B450-5A0C1330CBDB" );
> 
>          // Show all from same thread
>          "t" = ( "showThread:" );
> 
>          // Show all from same correspondants
>          "c" = ( "showCorrespondence:" );
> 
>          // Select first message row
> //        "f" = { "selectFirstMessageRow:" };
> 
>          // Select last message row
> //        "l" = { "selectLastMessageRow:" };
> 
>      };
> 
> With the lines commented out like this, keyboard shortcuts work. But if 
> I uncomment one or both of the last two entries, all custom keyboard 
> shortcuts stop to work.
> 
> Any ideas?

You're using braces '{}' rather than parentheses '()'

David




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