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Re: New old behavior in mail.app

From Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject Re: New old behavior in mail.app
Date 2015-03-25 08:42 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <250320150842443218%michelle@michelle.org> (permalink)
References <240320152051171845%michelle@michelle.org> <1m1u9kf.13bbsng1nwbyb8N@marc.my-fqdn.de>

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In article <1m1u9kf.13bbsng1nwbyb8N@marc.my-fqdn.de>, Marc Stibane
<spamfalle2@arcor.de> wrote:

> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> 
> > Deleting a message while holding down the option key once again removes
> > the message without putting it in the trash.
> 
> I remember Claris Emailer...
> Pressing the backspace key while holding down the option key not only
> put the message into the trash, but also immediately showed the next
> message in the same window without closing it.
> 
> That was _WAY_ more useful than either of current Mail.app behaviours.
> There the window closes, then the message is put in the trash (or, as
> you write, immediately deleted), and the selection moves to the next
> message, so you can press return which will open the next message in a
> new window.
> Time from pressing backspace to being able to read the next message: >3
> seconds.
> 
> Time for Claris Emailer: instantaneous, no window closing & reopening.
> I _still_ miss it.

So do I.  I was on the development team for versions 1.1 and later, by
the way.

One of the members of the team who retained the source code tried to
convert it to Carbon so it would run in OS X.  He never finished that
job.

I still have disk images of the installer.

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New old behavior in mail.app Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-24 20:51 -0700
  Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-25 06:19 +0000
  Re: New old behavior in mail.app spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) - 2015-03-25 12:14 +0100
    Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-25 12:10 +0000
      Re: New old behavior in mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-25 16:22 +0000
      Re: New old behavior in mail.app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-25 17:20 +0000
        Re: New old behavior in mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-25 21:41 +0000
          Re: New old behavior in mail.app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-25 17:53 -0400
            Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-25 22:35 +0000
              Re: New old behavior in mail.app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-25 18:41 -0400
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-26 03:50 +0000
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-03-25 23:59 -0400
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 12:44 +0000
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-26 21:55 +0000
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-03-27 04:08 -0400
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-27 13:46 +0000
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-27 22:35 +0000
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-26 12:41 +0000
            Re: New old behavior in mail.app jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-26 12:24 +1300
              Re: New old behavior in mail.app spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) - 2015-03-26 08:52 +0100
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-26 23:07 +1300
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-27 02:50 +1300
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app spamfalle2@arcor.de (Marc Stibane) - 2015-03-26 18:35 +0100
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-27 07:36 +1300
                Re: New old behavior in mail.app dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-27 11:42 +1300
            Re: New old behavior in mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-26 19:16 +0000
          Re: New old behavior in mail.app jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-03-26 12:24 +1300
        Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-25 21:56 +0000
    Re: New old behavior in mail.app Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-25 08:42 -0700
    Re: New old behavior in mail.app Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-03-25 16:22 +0000
      Re: New old behavior in mail.app Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-25 22:10 +0000

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