Re: mark location and return

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:58:20 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:

AGI> I wonder if others run into this as often as I do.
AGI> You are in folder X reading a msg.  To respond to
AGI> it you need to find a msg in folder Y. So you go
AGI> find the message in Y, then navigate back to your
AGI> prio position in X, to continue whatever you were doing
AGI> there.
AGI> 
AGI> This is clearly inefficient.  So maybe I am overlooking
AGI> a way of doing it better.

 There is indeed a way of doing it better: what I do is to open the folder
X in a separate window (right click folder in the tree, choose open) or
even open just this message in a separate window (the same but click on the
message). It's not very intuitive but it does work and this is something
which I use a lot.

AGI> If not, I have what may be a cool idea.  Location marks.  E.g., if I
AGI> am reading message 325 inf folder X, I can set a mark (similar to Vim
AGI> marks), and then at any time jump back to that location.

 It's a cool idea (because I love vi marks) but how do you propose to make
it work, UI-wise, to be convenient to use? We need keys to set and jump to
the marks (Ctrl-number/Ctrl-Alt-number?) or maybe some other interface for
this.

AGI> I even have a transitional suggestion.  I like to 
AGI> jump (ctrl-j) to messages by number.  How about
AGI> allowing an extended syntax foldername:msg#, so
AGI> that I can prefix my msg number with a folder 
AGI> name.

 I don't think you find it that useful, folder names are longer to type
than going there directly and you probably won't remember more than 1-2
message numbers anyhow. IMHO this feature wouldn't be very useful.

 Regards,
VZ



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