Actually my ban was done in error and the moderator at the time apologised, however for some reason my group settings had been set to no mail (I know I never set that) so I have missed all the lovely posts about Lion. So today I thought I best log into google to see what was going on.
On 31 Jul 2011, at 01:44, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > Chris, > > Its good to see the ban has been lifted and you're no long providing useless > babble to the list (JUst kidding). All good stuff man and I'll switch and > give it a try. > > Kev > On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am interested to know how everyone is now using Lion Mail? >> >> At first, I was using the classic view, but now I have switched to the new >> standard 3 column layout. >> >> I have my messages grouped by conversation (collapsed) and I used to hit >> enter to open all of the conversations (previously known as threads) in >> various windows. The oldest message would appear at the front, but in Lion >> the newest window opens in the front. So I have stopped using this method. >> >> I then listened to Mark Taylor's podcast on how he uses Mail. He simply >> just uses the tab key to jump between each of the 3 columns. I tried this >> method and found it ok, but I felt it did not always auto read the message. >> However, it is not a bad approach if you only want to use one key on the >> keyboard. Whilst Mark is in the message contents view, he then uses the >> arrow keys to move back and forth (left and right) between the messages >> within the thread). interesting approach, but I think I have found a better >> way. >> >> I looked to see if Apple had uploaded the VO online help file yet, and >> indeed they have. Apple suggest using VO+J to jumps between the messages >> list and the content of the message. I tried this and it works great. >> >> So now I just scroll down my messages list, if I see a thread or >> conversation I like the look of, then I just expand it by pressing the right >> arrow and then move to the first message in the thread/conversation and then >> press VO+J, VO will then start reading the message immediately and skips >> reading the mail header (who the message is from) and to jump back to the >> messages list, just either hit backspace to delete the message or press VO+J >> again which will take you back to the messages list to where you were in the >> list. >> >> I find this approach works really well, and I might implement the favourites >> function in lion mail to quickly jump between mail boxes and folders by >> holding down the command key and a number. For more information about the >> new favourites feature in mail,, then check out Ricardo Walker's excellent >> podcast. >> >> I would be interested to know how others are now using mail, and what about >> using it with the track pad? I have not done it that way yet as I have >> mainly been using Lion on my iMac with a full keyboard. >> >> However, I still really miss being able to jump to the top or bottom of my >> messages list (VO+command and either up or down arrow), this no longer works. >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
