Closed Bug 57979 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

A key bound to "delete thread" would be nice

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
MailNews: Message Display
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: frb, Assigned: scottputterman)

Details

binding ctrl-delete or something sane like that to "delete thread" would help the
usability of mailnews quite a bit

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001018
recommend wontfix, but cc mpt for opinion.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
Nah. The cost-benefit ratio is too high, IMO.

The cost is the risk of deleting a large number of messages if you accidentally 
had the Control key down when you went to delete a single message. As for the 
benefits, this would only really be of use if you were subscribed to high-traffic 
mailing lists. Even then, you could use either (a) the keyboard shortcut for 
select thread (is/will there be one?), followed by Delete, or (b) Shift+Down to 
make an extended selection in the thread pane, followed by Delete.

I'm marking WON'T FIX.  Don't sue me ;-).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
VERIFIED, this idea seems too dangerous.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
stephend: Please don't VERIFY bugs that you also RESOLVED...
I would also like this.  It need not be the default configuration, but it would 
be useful if the user could make this work somehow.

If there is a way to map a key combination to a sequence of key combinations, 
perhaps the user could do: "control-delete = shift-down, delete".
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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