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  Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-15 22:15 +0100
    Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2026-08-15 15:10 -0700
      Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post None <none@none.none> - 2026-08-15 17:25 -0500
        Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2026-08-15 16:32 -0700
          Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 00:41 +0100
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-15 22:35 -0700
              Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:47 +0100
                Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 13:31 -0700
                  Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee> - 2026-08-16 23:53 +0200
                    Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2026-08-16 15:06 -0700
            Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-08-16 10:13 +0100
              Re: Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-08-16 19:55 +0100

#21786 — Keyboard shortcut for keep ("star") a post

Is there one? I've looked through the menus, and my copy of
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird, but can't
see one - but could have missed it, it's a big document.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Everyone looks sun-kissed and beautiful and as you watch it ["Bondi
Rescue"], pale and flabby on your sofa, you find yourself wondering if
your life could ever be that exotic. (It couldn't. You're British.)
- Russell Howard, in Radio Times, 20-26 April 2013

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#21787

On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
<G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

>Is there one? I've looked through the menus, and my copy of
>support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird, but can't
>see one - but could have missed it, it's a big document.

According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a
simple "S"... but I haven't tried it:

<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-thunderbird?redirectslug=keyboard-shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US>

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#21788

On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> 
>>Is there one? .
> 
> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a
> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it:

I have-and it works.

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#21789

On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote:
> On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
>> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there one? .
>>
>> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a
>> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it:
> 
> I have-and it works.
> 

Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is
easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message
under the star in the column header.

-- 

David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com>

NO, not everyone has a smart phone.  My wife and I have
"dumb cell phones" and a land-line.  Neither of us can
handle QR codes, reply to text messages, or have any
kind of phone-based Internet connections.  We have no APS
on any phone.  We can send and receive photos only
through our desktop PCs.

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#21790

On 2026/8/16 0:32:49, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote:
>> On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote:
>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
>>> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there one? .
>>>
>>> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a
>>> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it:
>>
>> I have-and it works.
>>
Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! And yes, it is
in that file I have a print of - I just hadn't spotted it. (It's under
"tagging and marking", which I suppose makes sense.)>
> Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is
> easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message
> under the star in the column header.
> 
I have my mouse under my left hand :-) (But still often find keyboard
things easier, especially when I'm using the keyboard anyway. Everyone's
MVs.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

One of my tricks as an armchair futurist is to "predict"  things that
are already happening and watch people tell me it will never happen.
Scott Adams, 2015-3-9

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#21791

On 8/15/26 16:41, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/8/16 0:32:49, David E. Ross wrote:
>> On 8/15/2026 3:25 PM, None wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2026 17:10, Nobody wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:15:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"
>>>> <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there one? .
>>>>
>>>> According to this help file (in Help > Keyboard Shortcuts), it's a
>>>> simple "S"... but I haven't tried it:
>>>
>>> I have-and it works.
>>>
> Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! And yes, it is
> in that file I have a print of - I just hadn't spotted it. (It's under
> "tagging and marking", which I suppose makes sense.)>
>> Since I am right-handed and 's' is at the left of my keyboard, it is
>> easier merely to use my mouse in my right hand to click on the message
>> under the star in the column header.
>> 
> I have my mouse under my left hand :-) (But still often find keyboard
> things easier, especially when I'm using the keyboard anyway. Everyone's
> MVs.)

I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.

-- 
Cheers, Bev

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#21795

On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
[]
> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
> 
By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved
from a simpler system that worked just fine

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#21797

On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
> []
>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>> 
> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)

Messages in TB and tabs in FF.  I want to delete a lot of the mail I 
get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted.  Moving it elsewhere is 
undesirable.  For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves 
sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable.  "Pinning" just 
makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.

FF does that drag-to-new-window thing too, which is miserably annoying. 
Who even wants such a thing?

-- 
Cheers, Bev
   "Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
                                                      -- Lionel

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#21798

The Real Bev wrote:
> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>> []
>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>> 
>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
> 
> Messages in TB and tabs in FF.  I want to delete a lot of the mail I 
> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted.  Moving it elsewhere is 
> undesirable.  For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves 
> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable.  "Pinning" just 
> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.

Bookmarks and Local Folders anyone?

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#21799

On 8/16/26 14:53, Frank Miller wrote:
> The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 8/16/26 11:47, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
>>> On 2026/8/16 6:35:32, The Real Bev wrote:
>>> []
>>>> I wish there were ways to write-protect messages (and firefox tabs). 
>>>> Just starring or tagging isn't good enough.
>>>> 
>>> By write-protect, do you mean protect from deletion, for messages? (For
>>> tabs - I'm Edge - I don't have many problems of deletion: my main one is
>>> accidental drag-tp-(make-)new-window.)
>> 
>> Messages in TB and tabs in FF.  I want to delete a lot of the mail I 
>> get, but I'd like some to NEVER be deleted.  Moving it elsewhere is 
>> undesirable.  For some inexplicable reason FF tabs delete themselves 
>> sometimes and I'd just as soon have that controllable.  "Pinning" just 
>> makes them invisible, which seems wrong on several levels.
> 
> Bookmarks and Local Folders anyone?

I know about those.  Not what I want.  I want to keep stuff in the 
folder it actually belongs in without any danger of losing it when I 
clean out the kruft and bookmarks don't necessarily keep the history, 
which is probably why I want to keep THAT tab.

Yeahyeahyeah, never satisfied...

-- 
Cheers, Bev
=========================================
"Welcome to Hell, here's your accordion."

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#21792

J. P. Gilliver wrote:

> Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! 
Doesn't require thought, just scan through the menu (in this case under 
Message > Mark) and see if there's a keyboard shortcut for the action 
you want.

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#21796

On 2026/8/16 10:13:51, Andy Burns wrote:
> J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> 
>> Ah, S for save or star - I should have thought of that! 
> Doesn't require thought, just scan through the menu (in this case under 
> Message > Mark) and see if there's a keyboard shortcut for the action 
> you want.

My bad; I looked under Tools, and Message, but didn't look under the
sub-menu.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved
from a simpler system that worked just fine

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