Re: RFE: make it easier to find previously-read context in "match unread" mode

Jack Spaar <[email protected]>
posted [email protected], excerpted below, on  Fri, 09 Feb 2007
20:08:10 +0000:

> When reading with a threaded, "Match Only Unread Articles" view of the
> headers, it is sometimes necessary but difficult to find the previously
> read ancestors of an article being viewed.
> 
> If I simply un-click the View->Headers->"Match Only Unread" in order to
> find an article's context, my current header selection may no longer be
> highlighted in the header pane, because the article's thread is not
> expanded.
> 
> At that point, pressing the up-arrow will cause the proper thread to
> be highlighted, but this is very "discoverable".
> 
> Would it be possible/better to make the highlighting of an article's
> thread automatic whenever the currently viewed article's header is no
> longer visible due to either a view->filter change or the collapse of an
> expanded thread?

+1.  Please file a bug on this and post the link.  This has bugged me for
some time but I've not yet filed a bug.

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