1676756 - Can no longer move message filter quickly by holding down a key

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Andrew]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36 OPR/72.0.3815.186

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to move a filter in my list and only one step at a time is now possible using up or down arrow. I used to be able to hold down alt DOWN for rapid moving. This makes it so hard to sort since there's no built in filter sort.

Actual results:

Nothing - Holding down ALT and down arrow does nothing now

Expected results:

Rapid move of filter up or down

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in version 68 you were able hold a click on the buttons?

Comment 2

[Andrew]

I'm not sure when it stopped as there seems to have been a flurry of updates recently but I've been doing it for a few years now. I definitely noticed the change in the previous update so maybe two version ago. I don't know why there just isn't a sort option but at least rapid moving up and down the list helped

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Screenshot: Filter dialog with `Move ...` buttons (TB 68 and TB 78)

Sorry Andrew, but moving filters up and down the list using Cursor keys or Alt+Cursor has never been a Thunderbird feature. I have implemented that mechanism for attachments in composition only.

You can attach a screenshot of the dialog you are talking about.
Otherwise maybe this functionality was provided by an addon.
Test with Help > restart with addons disabled, which should completely remove the cursor-key shortcut because it's not part of TB.

In filter dialog, there are buttons to move filter up and down.
Yes, unfortunately holding Alt+access key won't repeat the move command.
But you still have move to top and bottom, so the maximum distance is half the list.
I don't think users re-sort their filters very often, so for the few times where this is needed, I guess it's acceptable to press the combo multiple times.