378030 - P key (Go -> Previous -> Unread Message) doesn't mirror N in crossing folder boundaries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310065

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Tim Chase]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 2.0.0.0 (20070326)

If the currently focused folder has no unread messages, a folder above it does have unread messages, the "P" key should produce behavior analog to the "N" key.  

This may be solved if Bug 360767 overlaps with it.  Not sure on that, but that was the closest match I found for my various keyword searching.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open a folder with no unread messages such that folders above and below the current folder have unread messages in them
2.  Hit "N" to jump to the next unread message (success)
3.  Return to the folder in step #1
4.  Hit "P" to jump to the previous unread message (fails)
Actual Results:  
Hitting P with no unread messages in the current folder does nothing

Expected Results:  
Hitting P with no unread messages should scan to a previous folder containing unread messages, the same way "N" scans to the next folder containing unread messages (respecting mailnews.nav_crosses_folders).

Given a folder tree that looks something like

+Inbox (2)
 |
 + [Foo]
 |
 + Bar (8)

where focus is currently on "Foo", hitting N correctly jumps to the "Bar" folder (respecting the mailnews.nav_crosses_folders setting).  However, if the focus is on "Foo" and one hits "P", it doesn't jump back to the Inbox.  In TB1.5, using the menu (Go -> Previous -> Unread message) may have behaved correctly but the hotkey "P" wouldn't work.  After upgrading to TB2, neither works.


Occurs on TB2 (release, not beta or RC) on WinXP and on TB1.5 on Win32 (x86), Mac (PPC), and Linux (x86).

Comment 1

[Jaswinder Singh]

I have reproduced this bug. N is working but P is not.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

confirmed. 

P also doesn't go to the previous unread message if the message is in a collapsed thread