Alt+number or alt+up/down to switch conversations

[TBurchfield]

#512 Made a feature request for alt+1 to switch to the first conversation, alt+2 to switch the second, etc, as well as alt+up moving to the next conversation up, and alt+down moving to the next conversation down.

I would love to take a crack at a PR, if there's still interest. There seemed to be interest in 2015. Thoughts?

[scottnonnenberg]

@TBurchfield I think we'd be open to a PR for that behavior, but one thing I'd request before you write any code: do a quick survey of how other applications handle this. Is Alt-Up a common shortcut for this?

Additionally, it's worth mentioning that the order of conversations in the left pane is changing all the time, so the conversation you get with the up and down commands will be constantly shifting.

[TBurchfield]

In looking around, many more applications (most browsers I've looked into) use alt+number to navigate to the number'th item. Apparently facebook and slack use alt+up and alt+down, according to the previous issue. Should I limit this PR to alt+number behaviour?

[scottnonnenberg]

No, I think Alt+Number would be fine. Another thing: Be sure to consider all three platforms, given that there's no Alt on Mac keyboards. Would probably be good to put at least the up/down commands in the main OS menu (with shortcut listed), so it's a little more discoverable.

[edmechem]

Just FYI on the Messages app on macOS, it's Control+Tab (Select Next Conversation) and Control+Shift+Tab (Select Previous Conversation). But I don't actually care what it is because I'll remap it. I'll be happy just so long as there are two menu items, that select Next/Prev Conversation.