On Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:35:47 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Dave posted on Sat, 23 Sep 2017 11:13:12 +0000 as excerpted: > >> On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 11:04:30 +0000, David Melik wrote: >> >>> When you select something with the mouse and a menu comes up, you're >>> supposed to have different keys do different things. It's wrong >>> design that in the menu for a newsgroup, 'h' is three options, which >>> makes 'h' >>> not do one of the options, just cycle through the list. The other two >>> need different keystrokes. Come on, don't force people to use the >>> mouse so much! >> >> I see your point. I'd not noticed that the same hothey had more than >> one function on that menu. On the other hand, to get that menu I >> already have the mouse in my ha nd so a slight twitch of the wrist and >> a left click is far quicker than reaching for the keyboard :-) >> >> On the other hand, if you want to use the keyboard for that, try "a" to >> get headers in current group or "A" (shift-A) to get headers in all >> subscribed groups, no mouse or menu required. > > That's probably why the three "h" menu accelerator keys in that menu has > been overlooked for so long -- people using the mouse for everything > ignore the menu accelerators, and people that favor the keyboard already > have hotkeys for the functionality, so never encountered the duplicated > accelerators. > > > BTW, note that pan's hotkeys (as opposed to menu accelerator keys) are > fully configurable. If you don't like the existing hotkey setup, edit > the ones that don't work well for you to something else, or simply > design an entire hotkey scheme that works better for you. > > I did the latter here, making things a bit more consistent, tho I kept a > few hotkeys (like f/followup) that I had already ingrained, and actually > reconfigured other apps (kmail back when I used it, now claws-mail) to > use f/followup for the primary reply hotkey as well. > > > But hotkey reconfiguration can be a rather large topic in itself and I > don't know that you (OP) are that interested in the details yet, so I'll > skip describing it in detail here. If you are interested and run into > problems, start a new thread on that, and we can go from there.
Thanks; maybe I'll try that later. ENTER should be enough for now. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
