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I usually read my new messages in Mail by pressing the Space Bar. It surprised me to find out that Alt-Space Bar scrolls the mail message up while in the message list pane. Unfortunately, this doesn't work in Safari or any other app I've tried.
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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: ptwithy on Jul 27, '05 10:06:01AM

Shift-spacebar will scroll up in Mail and Safari (and presumably any Cocoa app).



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: boredzo on Jul 27, '05 02:31:45PM

doesn't work in TextEdit with a read-only document. it generally works only in applications that use WebKit for display (which includes Mail, believe it or not, even for plain-text messages).



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: timcrawf on Jul 27, '05 10:39:06AM

It works in Safari for me as well
Safari v 1.3 (v312) in 10.3.9



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: earthsaver on Jul 27, '05 03:53:19PM

Option+Space works in OmniWeb for PageUp. I've gotten used to Shift+Space, though, since at least the days of Netscape 3.

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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: ALT147 on Jul 27, '05 10:52:09PM

Alt-Down Arrow and Alt-Up Arrow do the same thing in Safari, but without the smooth scrolling.



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: sumnchai on Jul 28, '05 01:26:00AM

Or, you could use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys on the keyboard. I'll bet they were even designed to scroll a page at a time!

This is something that bothers me - why confuse/overcomplicate something by adding an equivalent key combo that exists as ONE key on most keyboards, and as a combo already on laptop keyboards?



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: sjk on Jul 28, '05 02:08:18AM

You asked: "Why confuse/overcomplicate ...?"

Because some people (myself included) think the page up/down (home and end, too) keys are more awkward to reach and aim for than the arrow keys on some keyboards.



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: Mosaic on Jul 28, '05 07:08:21AM

Why are saying "Alt-Space Bar" over and over? This is a Mac web site remember? Any way... Option Space to scroll go down, and Sift Space to scroll back up.



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Scroll Mail messages up a page at a time
Authored by: jedik on Jul 28, '05 11:32:03PM

Alt? Alt? Ahhh, OPTION. Ok. ;)

I found that SHIFT+SPACE work in many Cocoa app's at least, like Safari. In Mail.app, it will go to the beginning of th previous message. Thanks for the tip. :)

In Mail.app, OPTION+SPACE will scrool back a page, and more, it will go to the previous message in the thread, even if not in the thread view. :D

Cheers

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Mac Mini
Authored by: lullabud on Jul 29, '05 01:23:31PM

Hey man! Be nice to our Switching Mac Mini using friends who are bringing their Windows keyboards with them! =P



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