[MlMt] Move focus to message list

Stefan Buehler stefan at sbuehler.de
Wed Mar 25 07:48:24 EDT 2020


Thanks! Sorry for being so dense.

:-) /Stefan

On 25 Mar 2020, at 11:36, David Ledger wrote:

> 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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