Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:09:27 +0100
"Peter Humphrey" <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> Thanks for your thoughts Alan. I didn't like Claws much last time I
> tried it, but then that was some time ago.
> 
> Does anyone recommend a mail client that doesn't rely too heavily on
> the mouse? I much prefer to navigate, reply etc with the keyboard.
> I've seen Evolution recommended; is that OK?
> 
> Meanwhile I'm having to use my ISP;s webmail service.

I love claws but perhaps you should ask on the claws mailing list I
thought it was too mouse heavy too but when I actually look it's very
few tabs, arrows, enter and ctrl-R to reply etc. and the
configurability of claws may help too, though I can't see if you can
assign shortcuts to custom commands/actions.

The manual says this but I can't find out how to change those shortcuts
'on the fly' myself after a quick try. I shall certainly be using the
mouse less now anyway ;-)

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B. Default keyboard shortcuts
B.1. Motivations and general conventions

Although Claws Mail is a graphical application and can mainly be
commanded with your mouse, it also requires the frequent use of the
keyboard. Composing a mail is the most common of the tasks that require
the use of the keyboard. For people who write a lot of mails, having to
move hands from keyboard to mouse greatly reduces productivity, so
Claws Mail provides keyboard shortcuts to allow faster operation.

This not only benefits power users by providing keyboard alternatives
and keyboard navigation, it also enables people with disabilities, (who
may not be able to properly control a pointing device), to use Claws
Mail.

The most general convention is the Escape key. Focused dialogues or
windows can be closed by hitting the Esc key.

There are other key combinations which are assigned by default to menu
items. We won't list these here, as they are already shown on the
righthand side of the menus themselves, so you can easily learn them
with usage. Furthermore, if you don't like them, these shortcuts can be
changed on the fly by focusing on the menu item and pressing the
desired key combination.

In addition to these shortcuts there are others which vary from window
to window, which are summarised in the following sections. 
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