* mu4e: scrolling down takes you to next msg (but see mu4e-view-scroll-to-next)

NEWS

@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@
 
 * NEWS (user visible changes)
 
+** Release 0.9.9.x
+
+*** mu4e
+    - scroll down in message view takes you to next message (but see
+      `mu4e-view-scroll-to-next')
+
+
+* Old news
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :VISIBILITY: folded
+  :END:
+
 ** Release 0.9.9 <2012-10-14>
 
 *** mu4e
@@ -39,12 +51,6 @@
     - handle db reopenings in the background
 
 
-* Old news
-  :PROPERTIES:
-  :VISIBILITY: folded
-  :END:
-
-
 ** Release 0.9.8.5 <2012-07-01>
 
 *** mu4e

TODO

@@ -45,71 +45,76 @@
     - open links to mails through headers-mode somehow (i.e..,
      mu4e-view-message-with-msgid)
   - improve mouse interaction (i.e., cursor vs point)
-  - check move + create new dir
   - show counts of messages in searches (in main view)
   - show flush only if there's something to flush (and # of flushables)
   - fix unsafe temp-file handling
 
+* Done (0.9.9.x)
+  
+  - mu4e: scroll down –> go to next message
 
-* Done (0.9.9)
 
-  - make contacts in the view clickable (toggle long/short display, compose message)
-  - opening urls is too eager (now use M-RET for opening url at point, not just
-    RET, which conflicted with using RET for scrolling)
-  - document quoting of queries
-  - use mu-error
-  - tooltips in header labels
-  - tooltip for flags field
-  - remove --summary option (for mu find, mu view); use --summary-len instead
-  - add sort buttons to header labels (and do the sorting)
-  - cleanup mu-cmd-find
-  - implement --after for mu find, to only show message files changed after a
-    certain time (mtime)
-  - add mu:timestamp for guile (referring to the message file's mtime)
-  - guile automated tests
-  - add 'mu verify'
-    - automated tests
-    - handle verbose/quiet/normal output 'mu verify'
-    - check gmime 2.4 does not break
-  - hook up mu4e with 'mu verify'
-  - add 'help' command
-  - refactor mu-msg-part
-  - move widgets/ into toys/mug2, remove toys/mug/, rename toys/mug2 -> toys/mug
-  - add guile mu:count
-  - don't show GPG/PKCS7 sigs as attachments
-  - fix address completion (quote names)
-  - add support for X-Keywords (in addition to X-Label)
-  - guile: add stats test cases
-  - fixed iso-2022-jp (japanese) decoding
-  - make address completion case-insensitive
-  - recognize '*' in urls
-  - handle exception 'The revision being read has been discarded - you should
-    call Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation'
-  - handle passwords from get-mail shell command
-  - support fancy (non-ascii) chars for header flags, thread prefix strings
-  - improve performance of getting the list of maildirs
-  - fix setting wrapped/hide state in viewer
-  - fix ' realpath() failed for...' stuff
-  - allow for fancy chars (> ascii), make it configurable (mu4e-use-fancy-chars)
-  - don't user `error' for user-errors
-  - better echo-area reporting
-  - improve help feedback for user (command line)
-  - handling of encrypted messages
-  - improved checked for gmime-2.6 crypto funcs
-  - handling of command line options / help
-  - fix / add support for :size
-  - mu4e~view-wrap-lines (use visual-line-mode? see Jacek's mu4e~view-wrap-lines
-    mail)
-  - better help
-  - threading optimizations
-  - actions for /all/ headers, actions for /all/ attachment
-  - handle attached messages with attachments
 
 * Done
   :PROPERTIES:
   :VISIBILITY: folded
   :END:
 
+
+** Done (0.9.9)
+
+   - make contacts in the view clickable (toggle long/short display, compose message)
+   - opening urls is too eager (now use M-RET for opening url at point, not just
+     RET, which conflicted with using RET for scrolling)
+   - document quoting of queries
+   - use mu-error
+   - tooltips in header labels
+   - tooltip for flags field
+   - remove --summary option (for mu find, mu view); use --summary-len instead
+   - add sort buttons to header labels (and do the sorting)
+   - cleanup mu-cmd-find
+   - implement --after for mu find, to only show message files changed after a
+     certain time (mtime)
+   - add mu:timestamp for guile (referring to the message file's mtime)
+   - guile automated tests
+   - add 'mu verify'
+     - automated tests
+     - handle verbose/quiet/normal output 'mu verify'
+     - check gmime 2.4 does not break
+   - hook up mu4e with 'mu verify'
+   - add 'help' command
+   - refactor mu-msg-part
+   - move widgets/ into toys/mug2, remove toys/mug/, rename toys/mug2 -> toys/mug
+   - add guile mu:count
+   - don't show GPG/PKCS7 sigs as attachments
+   - fix address completion (quote names)
+   - add support for X-Keywords (in addition to X-Label)
+   - guile: add stats test cases
+   - fixed iso-2022-jp (japanese) decoding
+   - make address completion case-insensitive
+   - recognize '*' in urls
+   - handle exception 'The revision being read has been discarded - you should
+     call Xapian::Database::reopen() and retry the operation'
+   - handle passwords from get-mail shell command
+   - support fancy (non-ascii) chars for header flags, thread prefix strings
+   - improve performance of getting the list of maildirs
+   - fix setting wrapped/hide state in viewer
+   - fix ' realpath() failed for...' stuff
+   - allow for fancy chars (> ascii), make it configurable (mu4e-use-fancy-chars)
+   - don't user `error' for user-errors
+   - better echo-area reporting
+   - improve help feedback for user (command line)
+   - handling of encrypted messages
+   - improved checked for gmime-2.6 crypto funcs
+   - handling of command line options / help
+   - fix / add support for :size
+   - mu4e~view-wrap-lines (use visual-line-mode? see Jacek's mu4e~view-wrap-lines
+     mail)
+   - better help
+   - threading optimizations
+   - actions for /all/ headers, actions for /all/ attachment
+   - handle attached messages with attachments
+
 ** Done (0.8.9.5)
 
   - make next/prev header respect prefix argument (Jacek's patch)

mu4e/mu4e-view.el

@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ contact."
   `mu4e-show-image' is non-nil."
   :group 'mu4e-view)
 
+(defcustom mu4e-view-scroll-to-next t
+  "If non-nil, move to the next message when calling
+`mu4e-view-scroll-up-or-next' (typically bound to SPC) when at the
+end of a message. Otherwise, don't move to the next message.")
+
 (defvar mu4e-view-actions
   '( ("capture message" . mu4e-action-capture-message)
      ("view as pdf"     . mu4e-action-view-as-pdf))
@@ -510,7 +515,7 @@ at POINT, or if nil, at (point)."
 	(lambda () (interactive) (mu4e-headers-split-view-resize -1)))
 
       ;; intra-message navigation
-      (define-key map (kbd "SPC") 'scroll-up)
+      (define-key map (kbd "SPC") 'mu4e-view-scroll-up-or-next)
       (define-key map (kbd "<home>")
 	#'(lambda () (interactive) (goto-char (point-min))))
       (define-key map (kbd "<end>")
@@ -1059,6 +1064,15 @@ attachments) in response to a (mu4e~proc-extract 'temp ... )."
   "Return t if we're in split-view, nil otherwise."
   (member mu4e-split-view '(horizontal vertical)))
 
+(defun mu4e-view-scroll-up-or-next ()
+  "Scroll-up the current message; if mu4e-view-scroll-to-next is
+non-nil, and we can't scroll-up anymore, go the next message."
+  (interactive)
+  (if (and mu4e-view-scroll-to-next
+	(zerop (- (point-max) (window-end nil t))))
+    (mu4e-view-headers-next)
+    (scroll-up)))
+    
 (defun mu4e-view-unmark-all ()
   "If we're in split-view, unmark all messages. Otherwise, warn
 user that unmarking only works in the header list."

mu4e/mu4e.texi

@@ -945,6 +945,9 @@ using @code{mu4e-view-hide-cited}, bound to @key{h}. If you want to do this
 automatically for every message, invoke the function in your
 @code{mu4e-view-mode-hook}.
 @item For search-related operations, see @ref{Searching}.
+@item You can scroll down the message using @key{SPC}; if you do this at the 
+end of a message,it automatically takes you to the next one. If you want to 
+prevent this behavior, set @code{mu4e-view-scroll-to-next} to @code{nil}.
 @end itemize
 
 @node MSGV Keybindings
@@ -962,6 +965,8 @@ y            select the headers view (if it's visible)
 RET          scroll down
 M-RET        open URL at point / attachment at point
 
+SPC          scroll down, if at end, move to next message
+
 searching
 ---------
 s            search