Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 6/9/2017 2:27 PM:
rickman wrote:
When using SeaMonkey for reading newsgroups, I see a number of
differences from T-bird. One that is particularly annoying is when
reading a thread new posts often show up in the middle with other
parts of the thread outside of the thread pane.
New posts appear in the middle when the new poster replies to a previous
post in the middle. For example, numbering posts below in chronological order:
Post 1
Post 2 (in reply to 1)
Post 5 (in reply to 2)
Post 3 (in reply to 1)
Post 4 (in reply to 1)
An easy way to see if any other posts remain unread in this thread is
to use the \ key to close the thread. If an underline remains I
could then press 'N' to take me to the next unread post in that
thread in T-bird. In SeaMonkey it takes me to the first unread post
in the GROUP!
Depends where you are. In my experience, N takes me to the next unread
message after the selected message; if there are none below it, SM will wrap
around to the top and search from there. If no message in a group is
selected, it goes to the first unread one in that group, and if no message
in the group is unread, it offers to look in the next group or mail account
that does have new messages.
Maybe I didn't explain it well. A message in the middle of the thread is
selected. There are posts in this thread as well as other threads off the
bottom of the pane. I use \ to close the message thread so I can see if
there are other unread posts *below* the post that is currently selected.
Now I can see there are unread messages in the message thread of interest as
well as unread messages in message threads *below* the now closed thread.
In T-bird I would see the closed thread selected and when I pressed "N" it
would take me to the next unread message after the first message in the
closed thread. In SeaMonkey I see *NO* message or thread selected and when
I press "N" it skips over all the unread messages below the thread I just
closed and wraps around to open the first unread message in the entire
group. Or I suppose you could say no message is selected so it simply
starts at the top of the group and finds the first unread message.
The question is *WHY* are the two apps different? I don't need an
explanation of how the tool operates, the issue is why/how the two tools
diverged. The T-bird behavior seems the obvious choice for useful behavior
and I would like to see SeaMonkey behave the same way.
--
Rick C
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