Hello Chris For what it's worth, from the very first beta of Lion, I pleaded with Apple to make the Classic View in Lion Mail act the same way it did in Snow leopard but they did not acquiesce.
Take heart, there are some tips you can employ to streamline the mail reading experience. I will be posting them soon. Mark On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Chris Westbrook wrote: > I personally think dealing with conversations is more clumsy now. It used to > be that all messages would open up when you hit enter on a conversation. I > would read one message, hit delete, and the next message would basically > start reading. Now, I have to go to the preview pane, read the message, hit > delete, and then I'm back in the message list again so I have to go to the > preview pane again. I wish it would just stay in the preview pane so I could > just here the next message. If I hit enter on a message in the thread and > open it in a new window when I hit delete I'm back in the message list again. > How are others dealing with list threads? am I missing something obvious? > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > >> No no no no no. Hit right arrow and left arrow to expand or collapse. Not >> vo+left or right, I'm saying, leave the vo keys out. >> >> In other words, once you're on the message thread, hit your right arrow by >> itself to expand. Then down arrow by itself to go to the next message in >> the thread. when done, just hit left arrow by itself, and the thread should >> collapse. Then you can hit delete like normal to kill the whole thread. >> >> Chris. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Westbrook" <westbch...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:42 PM >> Subject: conversations in mail >> >> >> This whole conversation business in mail doesn't seem to make sense anymore. >> It used to be that when I hit enter on a conversation all the messages would >> open up and I could just delete them one by one and here the next message. >> Now when I hit enter it just seems to read the last one. I know I can do >> vo+space and read each message individually, but that seems like more of a >> pain. am I missing something? Guess I could go back to classic layout, but >> would like to at least learn the new interface since I'm sure that will be >> taken away at some point. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
