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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Select Messages via Keyboard?
From:       Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=E4ckel?= <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-06-01 11:17:45
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On Friday, 1. June 2001 11:27, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Steve Simms wrote:
> > Is there currently a way to select multiple messages via the keyboard,
> > other than "select all messages"?
> >
> > The intuitive thing to do (at least, the thing I've tried to do
> > unsuccessfully about a hundred times since using KMail) would be to have
> > shift-left-arrow or shift-right-arrow select the current and previous or
> > next message, respectively.  Would this be hard to implement?
> >
> > Another idea that might be neat would be a "select thread" keybinding.
> > That's something I do fairly regularly as well.
>
> That's what you can do with having a threads column :) just click on the
> icon in front of the thread - that's how it works in netscape, so there
> *is* some sense behind that column, although others beleive it's the
> crappiest part of nsmail's listview :) *hint* :)

I just want to point out, that selecting multiple message via the keyboard 
*is* possible.
Change with TAB to focus to the headers pane. Switch with Ctrl-Up/Down to the 
message you want to select. Select it with Shift-Space.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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