238834 - common message selection via Ctrl+Space doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Alexander Kobel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.21  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (20040207)

Don't know whether it's a bug or just a still lacking feature:
The common practice of selecting things with holding Ctrl down, moving the focus 
via Up and Down and then (de-)selecting an item with Space doesn't work in the 
preview folder. While you can move the focus without changing the selection, you 
aren't able to select an item.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mail folder preview pane with more than one message in it.
2. Select first message.
3. Use Ctrl+Down to next message, try pressing Space - nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Simply nothing.

Expected Results:  
Select the second message, too. Should act like - for example - the Windows 
Explorer when selecting files.

Workaround with Ctrl+LeftClick on the other message(s).

Comment 1

[Petey]

Confirming...

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Confirming...

Gerv

Comment 3

[Emil Hesslow]

Made a extension that make just this. http://www.webhallen.com/emil/ctrlspace.xpi

If I could I would submit a patch but I don't know how to do that. So if someone
make a patch of my extension I would be very happy.

The code is:
<key id="ctrlspace" key=" " oncommand="ToggleSelect(event)" modifiers="accel"/>
in <keyset id="mailKeys"> in the file mailWindowOverlay.xul
and the function:
function ToggleSelect(event)
{
	var tree = event.target;
	var treeBoxObj = tree.treeBoxObject;
	var treeSelection = treeBoxObj.selection;
	treeSelection.toggleSelect(treeSelection.currentIndex);
	event.preventBubble();
}

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 267507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[nick]

Isn't this a dupe of #169921?

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Isn't this a dupe of #169921?

Well, that bug was originally for the suite's Mail/News, then it was retargeted 
to TB after this bug opened.  I've just changed that bug to a Core/Widgets bug 
for the reasons described there, and I'm setting a dependency here.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 277289 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Aaron Leventhal]

Ctrl+arrow then ctrl+space work now. I fixed this a while back, not sure the bug #.

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

V -- thanks, Aaron!