Re: Mail app question

From	Ian Hartley <Contact.News@sky.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mail app question
Date	2014-02-19 10:26 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<le20sf$b0a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 19/02/2014 03:09, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:09:14 +0000, Ian Hartley
> <Contact.News@sky.com> wrote:
>> On 18/02/2014 14:57, Tim McNamara wrote:
>>> Exactly.  I dislke the Outlook style three pane window for
>>> viewing messages.  It feels claustrophobic to me, so I always
>>> open e-mails in a new window to read them (this is also one of
>>> the reasons I don't like Thunderbird as a newsreader).
>>
>> Easy to do in TB just shrink the message pane and double click the
>> message.
>
> Too much farting around.  I want to pop up the message window and
> just space bar through them like I could in MT-NW.

Space bar works in TB but I use bettertouchtool and just swipe left/right.

> It strikes me as odd when software intended for reading messages is
> not designed to do that quickly and efficiently from the keyboard...
> if you read a couple hundred messages a day, reaching for the mouse
> or trackpad, postioning the cursor, double-clicking, etc., is a
> nuisance and a time waster.

I am the opposite I like to keep My hand on the mouse.

> One of the reasons I went with slrn for Usenet is that it avoids the
> silliness that often afflicts GUI apps (on the other hand, writing or
> responding to a post isn't as efficient depending on the editor one
> chooses).  Gnus within Emacs is a decent compromise between GUI and
> keyboard based apps, although having to learn the arcane keybindings
> is inconvenient.
>
> Ain't nothing perfect...
>

One day.

Ian

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Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-17 17:39 -0600
  Re: Mail app question Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-17 19:17 -0500
    Re: Mail app question Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-17 22:54 -0700
      Re: Mail app question dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-18 20:04 +1100
        Re: Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-18 08:54 -0600
      Re: Mail app question Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-18 18:20 -0500
        Re: Mail app question Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-18 18:32 -0700
        Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 02:10 +0000
          Re: Mail app question Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-18 20:27 -0700
            Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 04:29 +0000
        Re: Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-18 21:14 -0600
  Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 01:03 +0000
  Re: Mail app question Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 17:20 -0800
    Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 05:12 +0000
      Re: Mail app question Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 00:37 -0800
      Re: Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-18 08:57 -0600
        Re: Mail app question Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-18 08:12 -0700
          Re: Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-18 21:03 -0600
          Re: Mail app question Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 15:08 +0000
        Re: Mail app question Ian Hartley <Contact.News@sky.com> - 2014-02-18 20:09 +0000
          Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 20:16 +0000
          Re: Mail app question Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-18 21:09 -0600
            Re: Mail app question Ian Hartley <Contact.News@sky.com> - 2014-02-19 10:26 +0000
      Re: Mail app question Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-18 18:21 -0500
        Re: Mail app question Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 02:11 +0000

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