positioning cursor in (vm-beginning-of-message)

[heal...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to position the cursor when reading a new message at (approximately) the "Subject: "?

Sometimes when reading a new message the end of the message is displayed (maybe in the case of mime-decoded?). Other times if the distribution list is very long (the "To: " headers) one might have to scroll for a few screenfulls before getting to the mail body.

So is it possible / would it be difficult to modify the logic of the function vm-beginning-of-message so that one is immediately shown the body of the message?

Many thanks.

[Uday Reddy]

heal...@gmail.com writes:

> Sometimes when reading a new message the end of the message is displayed
> (maybe in the case of mime-decoded?). Other times if the distribution list
> is very long (the "To: " headers) one might have to scroll for a few
> screenfulls before getting to the mail body.

VM should always position the cursor at the beginning of the message. If it
is not doing so, it is probably a bug, which would have been fixed in later
versions.

I don't know what happens when there is a long "To:" list. Haven't seen such
messages in a long time.

But if you use Summaries (see the manual), then it is easy to scroll
messages using the <SPACE> bar.

Cheers,
Uday