277289 - Unable to selectively select/deselect individual emails in inbox list with Spacebar while holding Ctrl key

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238834

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[jklenk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: 1.0 (20041206)  [I tested 2005-01-06-06, but that build seems completely busted...also in that build during account setup, the Alt-i/Alt-O for IMAP/Outgoing Server don't work]

It is not possible to select/deselect an email item in the inbox list by 
pressing Ctrl+Spacebar while focus is on that email item.  Nothing happens when 
this is done.  However, this is standard Windows functionality - it should be 
just like left-clicking with the mouse while holding Ctrl.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.) Put focus in the inbox list.
2.) Hold down the Ctrl key and try to use Spacebar to select or deselect an 
email in the list.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Spacebar should work just like a mouse left-click, as it does in standard 
Windows applications (see Windows Explorer).  This makes it much easier for 
people like me, for whom it is painful to use the mouse, to select multiple 
interspersed emails for deletion (by holding down Ctrl while using the Up/Down 
Arrow keys and then hitting spacebar on all unwanted emails).

Comment 1

[nick]

Dupe of #238834

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238834 ***