Thunderbird Key-strokes

[James Silverton]

A little while ago, I mentioned some Thunderbird key-strokes that I
found useful reading this ng and others. Given my deplorable memory, I
have found it useful to create a desktop shortcut to a text document
that lists the shortcuts and I find myself using it several times a day.
Some day I will really learn the key-strokes

To forestall complaints about OT, I am not going to post this in
news.software.readers since most posts there seem to concern
technicalities like "scoring" or bitter arguments about the "best" news
readers.
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James Silverton, Potomac

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[James Silverton]

Try posting in Mozilla's T-Bird newsgroup. You have to subscribe to
Mozilla to do it, though.

Thanks, I might just do that tho' I have a rooted objection to using
news groups that require subscription.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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[Nil]

Thanks, I might just do that tho' I have a rooted objection to
using news groups that require subscription.

You do not have to subscribe to anything beyond connecting to the
server news.mozilla.org and subscribing to the newsgroup. No
registration is needed.

 

[VanguardLH]

A little while ago, I mentioned some Thunderbird key-strokes that I
found useful reading this ng and others. Given my deplorable memory, I
have found it useful to create a desktop shortcut to a text document
that lists the shortcuts and I find myself using it several times a day.
Some day I will really learn the key-strokes

To forestall complaints about OT, I am not going to post this in
news.software.readers since most posts there seem to concern
technicalities like "scoring" or bitter arguments about the "best" news
readers.

Did you have a question? If not, how does your post help anyone else?
Seems like you just dumped your "what I did today" diary entry here.

Thunderbird has its own newsgroup (if you feel that a non-descript post
has any actual value). If your newsreader doesn't carry it, connect to
Mozilla's NNTP server (news.mozilla.org).

 

[James Silverton]

Did you have a question? If not, how does your post help anyone else?
Seems like you just dumped your "what I did today" diary entry here.

Thunderbird has its own newsgroup (if you feel that a non-descript post
has any actual value). If your newsreader doesn't carry it, connect to
Mozilla's NNTP server (news.mozilla.org).

I do not feel that an informational post is irrelevant when something
seems worth mentioning. You may of course know everything but you are
not everyone.
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James Silverton, Potomac

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[James Silverton]

Did you have a question? If not, how does your post help anyone else?
Seems like you just dumped your "what I did today" diary entry here.

When did you become the arbiter of acceptable posts in this group? The
idea that only questions are suitable posts is a new one to me. If I
find something useful, it's likely that others may too. If they don't
they can ignore me.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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[Char Jackson]

I do not feel that an informational post is irrelevant when something
seems worth mentioning. You may of course know everything but you are
not everyone.

An informational post isn't irrelevant when it's on topic for that
group, but I'm not seeing any information other than the fact that
you're having a hard time remembering some keyboard shortcuts, so it's
hard to say which group would welcome such a post. Maybe a group that
deals with memory, recall, aging, or maybe Alzheimer's?

 

[Roy Smith]

Did you have a question? If not, how does your post help anyone else?
Seems like you just dumped your "what I did today" diary entry here.

Thunderbird has its own newsgroup (if you feel that a non-descript post
has any actual value). If your newsreader doesn't carry it, connect to
Mozilla's NNTP server (news.mozilla.org).

I don't see how this is off topic for this group. All I see in his post
is a helpful hint to help one remember some shortcuts. Just because he
used Thunderbird as an example doesn't necessarily mean that the post
should be in a Thunderbird newsgroup. His comment is one that can be
used for any program that one might have problems remembering it's
shortcuts.

After all what isn't the name of this newsgroup alt.windows7.general? I
don't see where in the name that would suggest that only questions
and/or problems with Windows 7 be posted here. IMHO as long as one is
talking about Windows 7 in any shape, form or manner their posts should
be welcomed here.


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Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Thunderbird 3.1.9
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:27:46 PM

 

[Bob I]

Here

http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

An informational post isn't irrelevant when it's on topic for that
group, but I'm not seeing any information other than the fact that
you're having a hard time remembering some keyboard shortcuts, so it's
hard to say which group would welcome such a post. Maybe a group that
deals with memory, recall, aging, or maybe Alzheimer's?

OT, but I was thinking today about the idea that humans are capable of
dealing with 7 +- 2 ideas at once, and wondering if the correct values
for me are 1/2 +- 1/2.

It was just one of those times when I went into a room to do two things,
and managed to walk out after doing only one, so I decided to have a
creative thought about it

 

[James Silverton]

Here

http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard+shortcuts

That's a good page but I find a small limited list of useful keystrokes
that I can call up by a shortcut to be very helpful.

ALT-vea and ALt-veu are among the most useful.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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[Char Jackson]

ALT-vea and ALt-veu are among the most useful.

Back when the web was new, (well, new to me, anyway), say around 1991,
I was involved with several groups where useful URLs were shared with
the group, and everyone gobbled them up. You remind of that simpler
time every time you share your favorite keyboard shortcuts. I don't
find them useful, but I find them somewhat nostalgic.

 

[James Silverton]

Back when the web was new, (well, new to me, anyway), say around 1991,
I was involved with several groups where useful URLs were shared with
the group, and everyone gobbled them up. You remind of that simpler
time every time you share your favorite keyboard shortcuts. I don't
find them useful, but I find them somewhat nostalgic.

I've said it before that I'm actually an inveterate mouser and I don't
really like elaborate key strokes. It's just that three mouse clicks is
a bit too much for operations that I find myself using frequently.
Others' experience may differ of course.

There is a small amount of mnemonic value to "vea" and "veu" and they
don't have quite the arbitrary nature of the keystrokes of early Word
Perfect and Word Stat etc.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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