Closed
Bug 295552
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
"Prev visited" and "Next visited" commands to navigate message visitation history (for session)
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)
Thunderbird
Mail Window Front End
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: jdg, Assigned: mscott)
Details
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:
Related to bug 235666?
Comment 2•20 years ago
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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.
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Want "Next" and "Previous" commands as in Netscape Communicator (defined by what messages you have viewed in this session) → "Prev visited" and "Next visited" commands to navigate message visitation history (for session)
Version: 1.0 → Trunk
Comment 3•20 years ago
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FWIW, I'm currently working on an extension that does exactly this...
Comment 4•20 years ago
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bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 5•20 years ago
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I still believe this enhancement is needed. Would someone with the power to
mark a bug as "confirmed" please do so.
Updated•20 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 6•18 years ago
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This is implemented, for TB 2.0.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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