GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 111342
Support for an `Undo' button
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
1) I've just had the depressing experience again of typing in a largish article, accidentally hitting ctrl-A and another character and losing the lot. An undo option on the edit menu would be wonderful. 2) I have two small children who occasionally want to sit on my lap while I am reading news and hit the keyboard "just like daddy". Since a number of the hot keys are un-shifted, un-ctrled, un-alted letters, all kinds of horrible things start happening. Either ensuring that all hot keys use a modifier key or allowing me to specify my own hot keys would be good. (This is a general problem with X-, GNOME- and KDE- software.) 3) An option to mark all the replies to the current article as "read" would be nice, so that a useless sub-thread can be skipped over. In the meantime, congratulations on the best newsreader I have ever used.
(1) this is the hardest of the three to do, so I'll leave the ticket open for it (though in bluesky, since I don't know when I'll be able to get to it) On the other two suggestions: (2) many of these keystrokes are for equivalence with Windows newsreaders and has nothing to do with Gnome/KDE/X. Kids in the lap aside, it's a lot easier to hit 'n' than control-n. This may seem like a small issue, but one goes through a huge number of these keystrokes during a Pan session. (3) yes, DM. Type 'd' (to add subthread to selection), then 'm' (to mark the selected articles as read).
From a certain point of view, (2) is a subset of (1): if every action is undoable, then any amount of key-pressing by children or kittys is harmless. (1) might be fixed by setting GNOME to use Emacs keybindings via the Keyboard control panel applet. If Pan doesn't respect that, it's IMHO a bug. Of course making everything undoable is possibly technically hard, and maybe also a bit hard to specify. (Should "Undo" reverse navigation commands? Probably, in this case.)
emacs-level keybindings are at the gtk level, not the app level, so AFAIK Pan should respect the users' keyboard themes correctly. Yes, I agree that `undo' would be the way to go: it's counterproductive to require modifier keys (alt/shift/ctrl) for repetitive actions like `read next article'. Changing this issue's Summary to reflect this.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99810 ***