OK, I'm going to submit a pull to add left/right arrow support for expanding/collapsing threads (which brings it in line with how Outlook handles threads - plus/minus will also be supported), and *drop* support for toggling threads with the spacebar. Instead spacebar will be used to select messages, so that one could use exclusively the keyboard for selecting and deleting multiple non-sequential messages. I don't know how many people use the spacebar for toggling threads, but it seems like the ability to select messages with the keyboard is more useful, and also more standard.
-Charles
On 2013-10-24 11:21, A.L.E.C wrote:
On 10/24/2013 04:29 PM, Charles McNulty wrote:
The downside of using the spacebar is that some people expect to be able to use spacebar to page-down. However it looks like at least in Chrome and Firefox, spacebar-to-pagedown is not working anyway in RC, so perhaps it's time to implement spacebar-to-select. I'll work on a pull request for that today - should be pretty easy.
I've never used spacebar-to-select feature, but with this functionality it makes sense.