295552 - "Prev visited" and "Next visited" commands to navigate message visitation history (for session)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74959

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

Please restore the "Next" and "Previous" commands (on the menu bar and via
keyboard equivalents 'n' and 'p') to work as they did in the Netscape
Communicator mail client.  (These take you back and forth through the history of
messages you have previously viewed in this session, analogous to the way that
the "Next" and "Previous" arrows in a browser go through the list of web pages
you have viewed.)

The present functionality of Go -> Next and Go -> Previous (and 'n' and 'p'),
which simply go forward and back one line in the list-of-messages pane, should
be kept available but renamed to "Forward" and "Back" (and 'f' and 'b') as they
were in Communicator.

The removal of this feature was the biggest annoyance in switching from
Communicator to Thunderbird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 235666?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 167269 (Seamonkey) also requests a visitation history, altho the shortcut 
keys requested there ("Netscape 4.x") are Alt+LeftArrow and Alt+RightArrow -- 
which are more sensible: that's what the Firefox and Mozilla browsers use to 
move back and forth in *their* histories.

(In reply to comment #0)
> The present functionality of Go -> Next and Go -> Previous (and 'n' and 'p'),
> which simply go forward and back one line in the list-of-messages pane, should
> be kept available but renamed to "Forward" and "Back" (and 'f' and 'b') as
> they were in Communicator.

Your description of the menu and current behavior is not accurate:
Go|Next and Go|Previous are not action items, but submenus, and the text for the 
items is explicit:
  Message  (F / B)
  Unread Message  (N / P)
  Flagged Message  (no shortcut)
  Thread  (T, next only)

So, as you can see, Forward and Back (F and B) already exist.  The difference 
is, F and B move strictly along the list; N and P move to the next/previous 
*unread* message.  The N/P/F/B behavior is taken from the old-time, text-mode 
newsreaders such as rn, nn and tin.

Comment 3

[Karsten Düsterloh]

FWIW, I'm currently working on an extension that does exactly this...

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[John David Galt]

I still believe this enhancement is needed.  Would someone with the power to
mark a bug as "confirmed" please do so.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is implemented, for TB 2.0.