339848 - Expand/Collapse trees by NumPad+/NumPad-

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130388

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Arkady Belousov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; ru) Opera 8.54
Build Identifier: http://mozilla.mirrors.tds.net/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.2/win32/ru/Thunderbird%20Setup%201.5.0.2.exe

When I press NumPad+/NumPad- in tree currently ignored by TB, and I don't know other (standard) methods for this.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

left/right ?

Comment 2

[Arkady Belousov]

> left/right ?

     Well, Left/Right keys do expand/collapse, but +/- will be better.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Do you mean this should expand/collapse the tree with the currently-selected message, or all trees in the current pane?  I presume the former, as that's how Windows Explorer does it.  (Outlook too?)  Explorer does not respond the '+' 
and '-' on the main keyboard.

Somewhat OT: In the Thread pane, '*' and '\' expand and collapse all trees for that folder (and the setting is sticky for each folder).  These keys *used* to be '*' and '/' which meant they could both be hit at the keypad, like the '+' and '-' convention suggested here -- however '/' was taken over (several versions of Seamonkey ago) by Find In Message, so the backslash was used instead.

Now, Ctrl+F is used (in TB, anyway) for Find In Message, and '/' does nothing 
-- it would be good to restore the '/' shortcut to Collapse Threads.

Comment 4

[Arkady Belousov]

> Do you mean this should expand/collapse the tree with the currently-selected
> message, or all trees in the current pane?

     + expand tree-node, on which cursor is stayed. If it stayed on account - should be expanded account tree. If cursor is on folder (branch inside account), should be expanded folder (if there is subbranches). If cursor is on/in thread root-letter or on/in some message inside thread, then should be expanded/collapsed all current thread. But, if you will support collapsing only for part of thread (like folder in account), may be, this also will be useful.

> I presume the former, as that's how
> Windows Explorer does it.  (Outlook too?)  Explorer does not respond the '+' 
> and '-' on the main keyboard.

     Win9x, Explorer: +/- works.

> Somewhat OT: In the Thread pane, '*' and '\' expand and collapse all trees for
> that folder (and the setting is sticky for each folder).  These keys *used* to

     Thank you for info.

> Now, Ctrl+F is used (in TB, anyway) for Find In Message, and '/' does nothing 

     BTW, is there possibility to search over all folder and/or over selected messages (no only inside current message)? If not, I will fill request to enhancement.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #4)
>      BTW, is there possibility to search over all folder and/or over selected
> messages (no only inside current message)? If not, I will fill request to
> enhancement.

Right-click on a folder or account, and select Search from the menu.

Comment 6

[Arkady Belousov]

> >      BTW, is there possibility to search over all folder and/or over selected
> > messages (no only inside current message)? If not, I will fill request to
> Right-click on a folder or account, and select Search from the menu.

     This (filtering) is useful, but not equal to searching: with searching, I see context, then press "continue" and come to next context, etc. Unfortunately, currently, as I see, searching is stops at letter boundary.

Comment 7

[Arkady Belousov]

> >      BTW, is there possibility to search over all folder and/or over selected
> > messages (no only inside current message)? If not, I will fill request to
> Right-click on a folder or account, and select Search from the menu.

     This (filtering) is useful, but not equal to searching: with searching, I see context, then press "continue" and come to next context, etc. Unfortunately, currently, as I see, searching is stops at letter boundary. So, should I create new enhancement request?

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

We don't actually do the tree keyboard shortcuts, we get them for free from the core, which needs to distinguish between numpad+ and regular+ before it can do this.