Keyboard shortcuts to include 'move' 'archive' and 'delete'
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The single key shortcuts to manipulate a message such as reply, forward, new message are one reason I have moved to Vivaldi but most of my messages are either archived or moved to one of my Gmail folders. Is it possible to provide single key shortcuts to archive or delete messages and some keyboard method to allow you to move messages to folders.
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@DMcDowall I don't see this ever being implemented. There are way too many possible targets to which a message could be moved.
If you have a Menu Key on your keyboard, you can already move a message to a folder using access keys on the menus.
In my case: Menu Key, O, M, J would move a message to the Junk folder.
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@Pesala said in Keyboard shortcuts to include 'move' 'archive' and 'delete':
There are way too many possible targets to which a message could be moved.
The way this works in other email apps (e.g. Postbox) is that there is a single keystroke for "Move to" or "Go to," which pop up a field where you can start typing the folder/label you want. For example, in Postbox "V" brings up a "move to" overlay, and you them type the first few letters of the target folder, it auto-populates, and you hit Return.
I might consider using Vivaldi as my email daily driver if this feature were available. Unfortunately, it's one of those features that once you've had it, it's pretty difficult to give up because it makes email management so much easier.
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To add to what @100WattWalrus says, "v" as a shortcut to move, with an autocomplete input to select the target, is quite a common behaviour (I use that in Gmail and Geary).
It is probably the single main reason why I end up using Geary most of the time and give up on Vivaldi mail every time I try it for a bit. Move messages from inbox to folders is one of my most frequent actions, and doing it in Vivaldi is extremely cumbersome - in my case, I organise my mail into many different folders (or "labels" in Gmail).
Should Vivaldi support this, I would probably switch and not look back.
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@Pesala this doesn't really work for me, I have many folders and the last step just seems to randomly match whatever folder has that letter in its name.
As an example, Menu-O-M-O in my case ends up moving the message to "INBOX.Junk" because my email provider's IMAP folders all come up named "INBOX.<something>" and INB[O]X.Junk matches the "O".
