Okay, thanks. I'll try vo-j, but I figured out I can just hit enter to read the message, then cmd-w the window when I'm done. Still not too elegant, but better than arrowing all over the place. I think I'll stick to the normal view, since I get a great deal of messages from mailing lists and i would hate to not have things grouped by conversation. On 28 Apr 2012, at 22:26, Henry D. Hollithron wrote:
> Good Day: >> > > I've put the answers to your questions, at least as much as I know of > them, in the extract from your original message below. Since I've only used > Mac OS Lion, though, someone else might have additional information. At any > rate, here goes. > > HTH: > Henry > > Education never ends. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the > last. > Sherlock Homes > > On 28 Apr 2012, at 15:32, Alex Hall wrote: > >> 1. I deleted a message, but vo said nothing and I was jumped to the bottom >> of the mail list. What happened? > Your message was moved to the trash mailbox. I don't know if you have > your messages column sorted from oldest to newest or not, but that might be > why you're moved to the bottom of the message list. If you want to make sure > that you have actually deleted all the messages you didn't want to keep, you > can, of course, look at the trash mailbox. There is a favorites bar at the > top of the window, but I prefer to go to the view menu and choose the "show > mailbox list' option. Both are accessible, but I don't know how you would go > about adding a mailbox to the favorites bar, which, as I understand, allows > you to switch to a mailbox with a single keystroke. > >> 2. Why can I not quickly read messages? I tried cmd-j and tab, but nothing >> happened, yet a new message appeared in a conversation as though I had just >> read the oldest one, though I had not. I can hit the "stop interacting" >> keystroke twice, then vo-right a few times and interact, but there has to be >> a better way. > The keystroke to jump to the preview pane is VO-J. Command J, I think, > marks the message as junk, though I'm not quite certain on that point, since > it doesn't show up in the menus to my knowledge. >> 3. I hear a lot about "classic view". What is it, and should I switch to it? >> What advantages does the normal view offer over the classic? > The new view introduced into Lion is very similar to the view of > messages you might get on the GMAIL website, that is, messages with the same > subject are grouped into conversations, which you can expand. The classic > view, in contrast, displays all the messages in a larger list, with columns > containing the information (date, from, subject, etc.) of the message, rather > like you might see with KeyMail on a BrailleNote. Both views are accessible, > so most people recommend experimenting with them and seeing which one you > prefer. The option, as you probably already know, is in the View menu with > the name "Organize by Conversation". > > -- > 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. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- 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.
