My memory of the mail app from when I could see the screen is that a single tap
would select a message and a double tap would open it. On the phone, a triple
tap implements a doublet, but from keyboard help it appears that a triple tap
does "describe voiceover item"
I tried assigning mouse double click to command click and command double click
in the trackpad commander, making sure that Mouse followed voiceover cursor was
also selected. But this still did not allow me to open the
It shouldn't be too difficult to create a AppleScript that would create a new
window with selection which could then be assigned a commander though that
would have to be used with a modifier key
I have thought of going the other way of having keys without modifiers being
able to navigate the mail message list though I don't know if KeyBoard maestro
could be intelligent enough to work only in a specific type of window of a
specific app but that does present some interesting patterns. Do any of the
keyboard macro facilities have ways of reacting to multifinger gestures, if so
a more configurable trackpad commander could be created.
.
I have though
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Eric Caron <ecar...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Jurgen and others,
>
> I didn’t mention that I do have track pad commander enabled. I also
> should have said that a single finger double tap does work in some places as
> it does on the iPhone, example on a close button or in the extras menu. but
> in other places such as mail it doesn’t. As I spend a lot of time in the
> mail app not mastering the track pad there is pretty mush a dead end for me.
>
> I think. few years ago I tried to make a custom gesture for enter but failed.
> I can give the VO J assignment a try. Still without a enter function I
> expect I’ll hit a wall again in another app.
>
> I had hoped in the last few years something might have changed for the track
> pad.
>
> Thanks for the great info and tips.
>
> Eric Caron
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2017, at 03:35, Jürgen Fleger <mailinglis...@fleger.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
> I'm not aware of a successful standard gesture to open e-mails via the
> Trackpad Commander.There’s no gesture equivalent for Enter.
> But what I’ve done was to define my own gesture for VO + j in VO utilities.
> Now I’m able to use this gesture to jump to the preview pane and back to the
> e-mails table.
> Good luck.
> Jürgen
>
>> Am 16.12.2017 um 05:51 schrieb Eric Caron <ecar...@comcast.net>:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I would like to use my track pad more but I can’t figure out how to
>> actually open a item. For example if I’m in mail I can interact with the
>> message list move up and down, but when I want to open a message I need to
>> go back to the keyboard and press enter. What is the equivalent action on
>> the track pad? I like to try to use the track pad as I would a iPhone but
>> to control my mac. Having to go to the keyboard defeats the usefulness.
>>
>> A single finger double tap doesn’t seem to do anything on the track pad.
>>
>> tips appreciated.
>>
>> Eric Caron
>>
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