The following shortcuts are available when reading messages (each shortcut is enclosed in double quotes):
"n" "+" "." - Go to next message. If there are no more "cursor right" messages in the current conference, a window will pop up requesting which conference to read next. "b" "p" "-" "," - Go to the previous message. If there are no "cursor left" previous messages in the current conference, a requester come up asking if you want to go to the previous conference. "N" - Go to the next conference. "P" "B" - Go to the previous conference. ">" - Read the first answer to the current message. "Shift Cur. Right" (Thread forward.) "<" - Read the message which the current message was "Shift Cur. Left" the answer to. (Thread backwards.) ")" "=" - Read the different answers to the message the current "Alt Cursor Right" message is an answer to. "(" - Read related messages backwards from the current "Alt Cursor Left" message. "r" - section Reply to a message to the current message, make the reply default to the mail conference. "f" - section Reply to a message to the current message. "e" "E" - Enter a new message. "g" - Resign (unsubscribe) from a conference. The current will come up as default in the requester. "j" "J" - Join (subscribe) a conference. "i" "I" - Send userinfo about yourself to the remote system. "v" - Open the Event Window where you can do various changes to existing events on the current system. "w" "W" - Change between viewing ALL, Unread or messages found in a search. "o" "O" - Change between the various methods of sorting messages. "G" - Order a full conference list. Will be done the next time you call this system. "d" "D" - Download a file from this system. The file will be downloaded the next time you call. "M" - Mark the current message as unread. "m" - Open the Mark Window which will allow you to mark messages in different ways. "u" "U" - Open the Upload Window where you enter information about files to upload to this system. "C" - Catchup will mark all messages in the current conference as read. "a" "A" - Will let you pack and purge all or the current conference. "ENTER" "RETURN" - Scrolls the current message one line towards the end. "SPACE" - Advances the text in the current message one page forward. If the last line in the message text is shown, this will go to the next message. "ESC" - If the Main Window is active, this will close the system and return you to the Startup Window. If the SHIFT key is also pressed, no outgoing event packages will be created. If any other window is selected, that window will be closed. "TAB" - Cycles between and, if shift-backspace is used, brings "BACKSPACE" to front the different THOR windows. "CTRL Cursor Up" - Will bring you to the top of the message text. "Ctrl Cursor Down" - Will bring you to the bottom of the message text. "HELP" - Will give you help on the window under the cursor. "`" - Will turn on/off viewing of the extra header fields present on news/mail and Fido systems. 5 (num keypad) - Mark messages with the current subject as read. Numerical keypad - Will work as described on the keys (eg. Home etc)
See section Message reading and writing, and section Windows in Thor for more info.
All thread functions requires that the system type supports reference information.
Please note that the availability of the different functions described here will differ from system to system. In that case, selecting an unsupported function will not have any effect and the appropriate gadget will be ghosted.
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