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17. Reference

In this section you will find a few pieces of information that might be handy in making Sylpheed more clear for you in respect to the used shortcut keys, and a layout of the format of the address book.

17.1 Short-Cut Key List

One-key shortcuts:

  • a: create a new message
  • d: delete the selected message
  • f: forward the selected message#
  • g: go to a specific folder through a browsing dialog
  • n: jump to the next message/next part of a multipart message
  • p: jump to the previous message/previous part of a multipart message
  • v: switch on/off the message view
  • w: same as a
  • y: Opens save as... dialog

Shortcuts to the File menu:

  • Alt-F: open FILE menu
  • Alt-P: print
  • Alt-W: close
  • Alt-Q: exit

Shortcuts to the Edit menu

  • Alt-E: open EDIT menu
  • Ctrl-C: copy
  • Ctrl-A: select all
  • Ctrl-S: search

Shortcuts to the View menu

  • Alt-V: open VIEW menu

Shortcuts to the Message menu

  • Alt-M: open MESSAGE menu
  • Alt-I: check mail for current account
  • Shift-Alt-I: Check mail for all accounts
  • Alt-N: compose new message
  • Alt-R: reply to message
  • Ctrl-Alt-R: reply to sender (contrary to reply to e.g. mailing list)
  • Shift-Alt-R: reply to all (includes all addresses in To: and Cc:)
  • Ctrl-F: forward message
  • Shift-Ctrl-F: forward message as attachment
  • Alt-O: move message
  • Alt-D: delete message
  • Shift-Ctrl-N: open message in new window
  • Ctrl-U: view message source
  • Ctrl-H: show all message headers

Shortcuts to the Summary menu

  • Alt-S: open SUMMARY menu

  • Alt-X: execute (pending commands, only useful when commands are not executed immediately)
  • Alt-U: update view
  • Alt-G: go to other folder
  • Ctrl-T: thread view
  • Shift-Ctrl-T: unthread view

Shortcuts to the Tool menu

  • Alt-T: open tool menu
  • Alt-A: open addressbook
  • Alt-L: open logfile

17.2 Data Format of Address Book

The addressbook is located in  /.sylpheed. It is named addressbook.xml. The general format of the addressbook is: 

< addressbook ><p>
 < common_address ><p>
    < group name="Common addresses" ><p>
    < item ><p>
     < name > Paul < /name ><p>
     < address > paul@nlpagan.net < /address ><p>
     < remarks > Writes Sylph. manual < /remarks ><p>
        < /item ><p>
    < /group ><p>
 < /common_address ><p>
< /addressbook >

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