[sylpheed:31953] Re: Disable keyboard shortcuts?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Dec 6 02:25:18 JST 2007


On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:07:35 +0000
Godwin Stewart <gstewart at bonivet.net> dijo:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 19:04:05 -0800, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > For the umpteenth time I have lost an e-mail that I was going to send.
> > I spent 30 minutes composing an involved e-mail, then suddenly, because
> > of a typo, the whole thing disappeared.
> 
> The UI cannot be blamed for user errors.
> 
> What you're describing either requires confirmation or is recoverable
> anyway. Closing an e-mail without sending it requires confirmation unless
> it has already been (auto-)saved in the drafts folder (this is specific to
> sylpheed). If all the text in your mail disappears then successive uses of
> Ctrl-Z will step back through the changes made until you get your text
> back (this is common to all GTK applications so you really should know it).

I type at about 50 words per minute. When the e-mail I was working on
disappeared I remember seeing two things happening. It was so fast that
I can't say exactly what happened, except that probably the first
incorrect keypress was whatever the shortcut is for discarding the
e-mail, and the second was probably the enter key confirming deletion.

As for crashing, no it did not crash. Just the compose window
disappeared. The main program window was still running. In fact, it is
still running as I write this, as I have not turned off the computer.

I still want to turn off the shortcut keys. If at least I can disable
or remove the shortcut for discarding the e-mail I won't lose any more
e-mails.


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