[Users] CM 3.16 and Selection when entering a folder

Paul claws at thewildbeast.co.uk
Tue Dec 19 13:20:25 CET 2017


On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:58:50 +0000
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote: 

> There's an ambiguity in the meaning of 'first' and 'last', in
> particular in terms of what they apply to. In your mind you see them
> applying to the presentation order on screen. In Paul's mind he sees
> them as applicable to the order in which the messages arrived.
> 
> Short of making the description a lot longer and thereby
> unambiguous, or changing it to be perhaps 'top' or 'earliest' and
> thus hopefully more descriptive of the attribute it describes and
> less descriptive of the attribute it doesn't describe, I think it's
> something people just have to learn the meaning of. As ever,
> writing code carries extra votes!

Just before your message I made changes to the code in GIT.

Rather than earliest/latest I chose oldest/newest, both of which are
better than first/last.

I also added extra options for 'newest marked', 'newest new' and
'newest unread' messages.

with regards

Paul



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