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Natao arisiva ity resaka mitohy ity. Mametraha fanontaniana azafady raha mila fanampiana.

disable keyboard shortcuts

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zach345
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I just made a big screwup thanks to Thunderbird.

in my browser I wanted to type CTRL-A (select all text in a text box) and then type a person's name which has two M's in it.

But it turned out Thunderbird was the active window, I ended up marking all emails in my Gmail as 'read' which marked 300ish unread emails I have in my inbox as 'read'. They aren't deleted but now they are lost in a sea of 24,000 messages. I keep unread messages as sort of a to-do list

1) is there any way to recover a list of which emails were unread? logs?

2) How do I completely disable shortcut keys? I already downloaded Keyconfig extension but it doesn't let you change the M key which is for mark read/unread

I just made a big screwup thanks to Thunderbird. in my browser I wanted to type CTRL-A (select all text in a text box) and then type a person's name which has two M's in it. But it turned out Thunderbird was the active window, I ended up marking all emails in my Gmail as 'read' which marked 300ish unread emails I have in my inbox as 'read'. They aren't deleted but now they are lost in a sea of 24,000 messages. I keep unread messages as sort of a to-do list 1) is there any way to recover a list of which emails were unread? logs? 2) How do I completely disable shortcut keys? I already downloaded Keyconfig extension but it doesn't let you change the M key which is for mark read/unread

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zach345
zach345 Tompon'ny fanontaniana
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at the same time I want to disable the CTRL-Enter to send an email which is the worst possible feature, should be disable-able!

user1121639
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Your 1). If it just happened, you can click Ctrl-Z to undo. It's probably too late now. I know of no way to help you now.

You have already found the add-on "Keyconfig", which is the only possible solution I know of for disabling keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird.