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August 3, 2006

Thunderbird: Finally, command-n makes a new message on Mac OS X

The most annoying thing about Thunderbird on Mac OS X is that command-n does not make a new message. Typing command-n for a new message is how it works on every Mac OS X email client I've ever used, and it just plain makes sense. Well, mscott has fixed the problem for Thunderbird 2!

Posted by josh at August 3, 2006 12:26 PM

Comments

It was the inheritance from SeaMonkey...

command+n for a new browser window and command+m for a new message...

(n standing for navigator and m for message, well)


Off course I agree command+n should be used, as Thunderbird doesn't own navigator windows...

Posted by: Asrail at August 3, 2006 1:34 PM

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
may the gods forever smile on mscott

Posted by: Roan at August 3, 2006 1:59 PM

This is great news to make it more Mac like. It would also be great if the tab controls used on Mac OS X for Firefox/Thunderbird were updated to be more like the Panther/Tiger tab controls in their look and feel. Outside my area of expertise, but these look ugly today compared to a Mac native app like Camino (which I love) or Safari.

Thanks in advance!

Posted by: Pat at August 3, 2006 2:27 PM

Damn, I'm going to be hitting command+m now in Thunderbird 2 as I'm getting use to it. ;) Any chance you can get a shortcut command for paste without formatting?

Posted by: Thomas at August 3, 2006 4:40 PM

@Thomas:

There is a fantastic extension called 'Copy Plain Text' which does that perfectly.

Posted by: encro at August 4, 2006 12:43 AM

@encro:
That's a Firefox extension and means that I can't do the copy shortcut. Not quite what I'm looking for.

Posted by: Thomas at August 9, 2006 8:32 PM

You rule, Josh. Thanks for entertaining me for 4 days. Thank your friends for me as well... everyone was very helpful. See you soon!

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Posted by: Rodrigo Serrano at February 4, 2007 6:35 PM

To paste without formatting with thunderbird (in Windows anyway, mabye it's also ok for Max):


1. Close Thunderbird and Firefox

2. Edit the pref.js file in Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/qwertqwreqewqw/pref.js.

3. Paste anywhere the two lines:

user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_key__Paste With Formatting", "control shift][V][][goDoCommand('cmd_paste');");
user_pref("keyconfig.main.xxx_key__Paste Without Formatting", "control][V][][goDoCommand('cmd_pasteNoFormatting');");

4. Et voilą. CTRL V makes a PasteWithoutFormatting, CTRL SHIT V makes a normal Paste.

Change the keys if you wish.

Hopes it helps.

Taken from:
http://mailman.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2005-October.txt

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