87170 - [RFE] Improve scrolling in mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 4302

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Francisco León]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010620
BuildID:    2001062015

If you are reading email and you put the cursor on the last line, then when you
scroll up with the keyboard, you need to use the mouse to click on the line you
want to type in, because scrolling with the keyboard (or mouse) does not move
the cursor, it just moves the screen. When you are typing an email, you are
using the keyboard right? Who wants to use the mouse to update the cursor if
it's faster and confy to do it with the keyboard? The problem is that the cursor
position does not move with scrolling, so this is a request to modify what
scrolling does

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read or type a long mail (more than the actual screen)
2.Now use page up to go to the top of email. Suppose you wanna write something there


Actual Results:  Since the cursor is not updated when scrolling, typing gets
done in the wrong place

Expected Results:  Cursor should move with the scrolling, in order to improve
user friendlyness and continue the improvement in keyboard use in mozilla

Comment 1

[Greg Miller]

This is pretty annoying on Windows as well. You have to move up one line at a
time, because page-up and page-down don't move the cursor.

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

I would propose a target milestone of 1.0
I hope developers agree that this is very annoying. This is catfood to me

Comment 3

[Francisco León]

Marking all platforms/os then

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 5

[Francisco León]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 4302 ***

Comment 6

[stephen.donner]

verified dup.