345426 - Message -> Mark -> As Junk: disable keyboard shortcut "J"

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Armin Fuerst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.4 (20060516)

I would prefer a possibility to deactivate the "J"-Keyboard-Shortcut for marking a message as Junk, because I frequently mark Non-Junk-Messages as Junk accidentally, because I'm using the keyboard a lot and have some e-mail addresses starting with "J". When I start a new message and type too quickly, I start typing the e-mail address before the compose-message is actually accepting keyboard-inputs (but is already displayed) and this causes the currently selected message to be marked as Junk.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
when I type too quickly (I have a slow PC)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Historically, we've used unmodified-letter shortcuts for navigation and marking messages for the sake of those used to old-school newsreaders (e.g. nn or tin).

However, I agree with this request, simply because an inadvertant mark-as-junk can really interfere with use of the system: in most configurations, the 
message is removed from the thread pane entirely and you have to go search for it, and mark it as Not Junk.  (I think 'R' for 'Mark Thread as Read' also interferes, as if you inadvertantly mark an entire thread read, you lose the state information.)

I would recommend swapping the Shift+J and J shortcuts, since marking something as Not Junk isn't a destructive process.

Comment 2

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

Instead of swapping J and Shift-J an undo for marking a message as junk, complete with restoring the training data to its previous state would be a good option too. In Dutch locale where "Yes" is "Ja" I find myself also marking messages as junk when not intended...