[imp] keyboard shortcuts

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <janmailing@gmx.de>:

> I can also see a use of it. Providing some non-standard keystrokes to common 
> tasks (Ctrl-E: expand names, Ctrl-S or Ctrl-M: send message...) would be a nice 
> thing and make it easier to use the ui.

All of those except Ctrl-S are taken in IE. You're going to have a hell of a
time finding shortcuts that mean _anything_ that aren't taken in at least
one of the major browsers.

-chuck

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Subject: Re: [imp] keyboard shortcuts

who says you have to be compliant with IE?  
:)

And you can make use of the ALT key as well. 

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Terry Davis
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Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <janmailing@gmx.de>:
> 
> > I can also see a use of it. Providing some non-standard keystrokes to
> common 
> > tasks (Ctrl-E: expand names, Ctrl-S or Ctrl-M: send message...) would be a
> nice 
> > thing and make it easier to use the ui.
> 
> All of those except Ctrl-S are taken in IE. You're going to have a hell of
> a
> time finding shortcuts that mean _anything_ that aren't taken in at least
> one of the major browsers.
> 
> -chuck
> 
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Subject: Re: [imp] keyboard shortcuts

Quoting Terry Davis <tdavis@birddog.com>:

> who says you have to be compliant with IE?  

As fun as microsoft bashing can be, it's amazingly counter-productive given how
many people use it.

> And you can make use of the ALT key as well. 

Used extensively on unix and on the Mac...

-chuck

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