Closed Bug 258888 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Filter change then Ctrl-A changes filter instead of selecting all filtered messages

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191801

People

(Reporter: tajkkj, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040911
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040911

If you change the filter in the mail "View" field, then press ctrl-A, the filter
changes back to "All" then selects all of the messages. Thus, instead of
selecting all of the messages from the chosen filter, all messages are now
chosen. In the past (at least as late as moz-2004-05-14 build), the filter
selection was left unchanged after ctrl-A was pressed. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.From Mail window, select a filter for the "View" field.
2.Press ctrl-A to select all of the messages displayed for that filter.
3.

Actual Results:  
The messages which are filtered appear, but when ctrl-A is pressed, the "View"
field changes from the chosen filter to the "All" view, and all messages are
selected, not those which were selected by the chosen filter.

Expected Results:  
Changing the "View" to a filter shows the filtered messages. However, pressing
ctrl-A should not change the filter setting, and should simply select all of the
currently filtered messages.
I have also the same problem, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4)
Gecko/20040927. Previous bahvior was match better.
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: sspitzer → mail
I am seeing this in Thunderbird 1.5b1 on OS X.
Note that Edit->Select->All does the right thing (i.e. only selects all messages in the current view), but this menu item also claims Ctrl+A as its short-cut.

I first hit this when moving all the messages my SPAM view. At least I didn't just delete all the messages I'd just selected (i.e. my entire inbox), but it was close call!
*** Bug 262676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
== thunderbird Bug 279001
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.