List of (UN)DOCUMENTED SHORTCUTS

THE BAT! V.1.60

INDEX

EDITOR	Message List Window
Movement (Windows,Pages,rows)	Messages
Word	Threads
Blocks,Rows	Selections
Search	Message List Window
Message	Account Tree
Utilities	Address Book
Miscellaneous	Miscellaneous
Credits	Mouse Shortcuts

----------EDITOR----------

____________________|Movement (windows, pages, rows)|____________________

1. scroll up/down to one row	Alt+Up/Down
2. Word left	Ctrl+ <-
3. Word right	Ctrl+ - >
4. Select all (only in message body)	Ctrl+A
5. To the beginning of the row	Home
6. To the end of the row	End
7. Up to one screen height (in message body)	PageUp
8. Down to one screen height (in message body)	PageDown
9. To the beginning of the page (in message body)	Ctrl+PageUp
10. To the first header field (when cursor in headers)	Ctrl+PageUp
11. To the end of the page (in message body)	Ctrl+PageDown
12. To the last header field (when cursor in headers)	Ctrl+PageDown
13. To the beginning of the text	Ctrl+Home
14. To the first header field(when cursor in headers)	Ctrl+Home
15. To the end of the text	Ctrl+End
16. To the last header field (when cursor in headers)	Ctrl+End

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____________________|Word|____________________

1. Uppercase the WORD	Ctrl+[
2. Lower case the word	Ctrl+]
3. Change the register of the letters of a wORD	Ctrl+\
4. Capatalize the Word	Ctrl+/

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____________________|Blocks, Rows|____________________

1. Justify the block or paragraph	Alt+J
2. Align the block on right end	Alt+R
3. Align the block on left end	Alt+L
4. Align the block on center	Alt+C
5. Switch block type to stream	Ctrl+O K
6. Switch block type to column	Ctrl+O C
7. Switch block type to linear	Ctrl+O L
8. Mark the current word	Ctrl+K T
9. Mark the current row	Ctrl+K L
10. Toggle insert/overwrite mode	Ins
11. Delete the block	Ctrl+Del Ctrl+K Y
12. Copy block to clipboard	Ctrl+Ins Ctrl+K C Ctrl+C Ctrl+Q C
13. Paste block from clipboard	Shift+Ins Ctrl+K V Ctrl+V
14. Move the block to the right	Ctrl+K I
15. Move the block to the left	Ctrl+K U
16. Cut the block	Shift+Del Ctrl+X
17. Paste the block as quotation	Alt+Ins
18. Mark the beginning of a block	Ctrl+K B
19. Mark the end of a block	Ctrl+K K
20. Toggle the mark of the block	Ctrl+K H
21. Read the block from file	Ctrl+K R
22. Write the block to a file	Ctrl+K W
23. delete the current line	Ctrl+Y
24. Delete to the end of line	Ctrl+Q Y
25. Place a position marker on the text	Ctrl+K n (n=0..9)
26. Go to a marker	Ctrl+Q n (n=0..9)
27. New row	Enter
28. Delete character on the left	Backspace Ctrl+H
29. Delete character on the right	Del Ctrl+G
30. Delete the word after cursor	Ctrl+T
31. Delete the word before cursor	Ctrl+Backspace
32. Undo	Alt+Backspace
33. Column selection	Alt+mouse
34. Stream selection	Shift+mouse
35. Line selection	Ctrl+mouse

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____________________|Search|____________________

1. Search for a string	F7 Ctrl+F Ctrl+Q F F3 Ctrl+L
2. Repeat last search	Shift+F7 F3 Ctrl+L
3. Search and replace	Ctrl+F7 Ctrl+Q A
4. Reverse search	Alt+F7

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____________________|Message|____________________

1. Send message deferred/immediately (depending on accountsettings)	F2 Ctrl+Enter
2. Send message, but inverting the option defineing whether to send deferred/immediately	Shift+F2
3. Save message and continue editing	Ctrl+S
4. Save message as...	Ctrl+F2
5. Save as...	Alt+F5
6. Save draft	Alt+F2
7. Cancel message	Esc

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____________________|Utilities|____________________

1. Insert current date	Ctrl+Q D
2. Insert current time	Ctrl+Q T
3. Attach UUE file	Alt+PgDn
4. Attach MIME file	Alt+PgUp
5. Select all	Ctrl+A
6. Check spelling	F4
7. Automatic spell checking	Ctrl+F4
8. Autoformat text (while typing)	Ctrl+Shift+F
9. New row at end of line (autowrap)	Ctrl+Shift+W
10. Justify on autowrap	Ctrl+Shift+J
11. Evaluate (calculator)	Shift+Ctrl+=

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____________________|Miscellaneous|____________________

1. Address book	Shift+Enter (while in From:, To:, etc)
2. Local menue	Alt+Enter Right mouse click (while in From:, To:, etc)
3. Next field from a history	Ctrl+Alt+Enter
4. Complete the address from the address book	Ctrl+Plus (while in From:, To:, etc)
5. Move to another address field	Arrows Tab/Shift+Tab (while in From:, To:, etc)
6. Move to message edit window	Tab while in the last field (Subject: )
7. History of the field	Alt+Down (while in From:, To:, etc)
8. Move to the one of the From:, To:, etc field	Shift+Tab
9. Insert quick template	Ctrl+Space

Arrows=Up/Down/Left/Right

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----------Message List Window----------

____________________|Messages|____________________

1. Open ("folder view")	Enter
2. Reply	Ctrl+Enter Ctrl+F5 Ctrl+R
3. Reply, quoting selected text	F4
4. Reply without quotation	Shift+F4
5. Reply to sender	Ctrl+F4
6. Find reply to message	Ctrl+Backspace
7. Reply to all	Ctrl+Shift+F5
8. Forward	Ctrl+F Shift+F5
9. Alternative forward (inverting the "Use MIME-fowarding" option)	Alt+F6
10. Redirect	Ctrl+E Ctrl+F6
11. Re-post	Shift+F6
12. Copy to folder	Ctrl+C
13. Move to folder	Ctrl+V
14. Save the message as...	Ctrl+S Alt+F5
15. Delete	Del
16. Mark as unread	Ctrl+U
17. Mark as read	Ctrl+M
18. Park the message	Ctrl+J
19. Unpark the message	Ctrl+D
20. Move to the next unread message	Ctrl+]
21. Move to the previous unread message	Ctrl+[
22. Add sender to the address book	Ctrl+W
23. Add recipient to the address book	Ctrl+Shift+W
24. Delete sender from the address book	Ctrl+B
25. Delete recipient from the address book	Ctrl+Shift+B
26. Create filter	Ctrl+Shift+F
27. Next page of message / next message if already at the end of a message and pressed twice	Space
28. Scroll up/down to one row	Alt+Up/Down

Sort by:

29. Received time	Ctrl+1
30. Creation time	Ctrl+2
31. Size	Ctrl+3
32. From	Ctrl+4
33. To	Ctrl+5
34. Subject	Ctrl+6
35. Message flags	Ctrl+7
36. Attachment presence	Ctrl+8
37. Parking/draft flag	Ctrl+9
38. Decending order	Ctrl+0

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____________________|Threads|____________________

1. With well known effects :)	Plus/Minus Ctrl+Space Shift+Space Alt+Space
2. Open/close the branch of the current thread in a folder	Right Arrow/Left Arrow
3. Open/close all the branches of the current thread in a folder	Ctrl+(Shift)+Plus/Minus
4. Open all the branches of all threads in a folder	Ctrl+*
5. Copy thread	Ctrl+T
6. Move thread	Ctrl+Shift+V
7. Delete thread	Ctrl+Shift+Del
8. Mark thread as read	Ctrl+Shift+M
9. Mark thread as unread	Ctrl+Shift+U

View threads by:

10. None	Alt+0
11. References	Alt+1
12. Subject	Alt+2
13. From	Alt+3
14. To	Alt+4

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____________________|Selections|____________________

1. Message (de)selection	Ctrl+Up/Down
2. Select all	Ctrl+A
3. Message selection	Shift+Up/Down
4. Select from the cursor position to the end (in EDITOR as well)	Shift+End
5. Select from the beginning to the cursor position (in EDITOR as well)	Shift+Home
6. Select from the cursor position to the beginning of the page (in EDITOR as well)	Shift+PgUp
7. Select from the cursor position to the end of the page (in EDITOR as well)	Shift+PgDN
8. Thats a combination of previous shortcuts	Shift+Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn/End/Home

9. Scroll right/left to one field	Alt+Right/Left
10. Up to one screen height	PgDn
11. Down to one screen height	PgUp
12. To the beginning of the message list	Home Ctrl+K
13. To the end of the message list	End

The last 4 ones can be used along with pressed Ctrl key - with same result

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----------MESSAGE LIST WINDOW----------

Most of all shortcuts in the previous window work here as well

1. Reply to all

Ctrl+Shift+Enter

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----------ACCOUNT TREE----------

1. Create new message	F5 Ctrl+N
2. Create new folder	Ins
3. Empty folder	Ctrl+Del
4. Properties	Ctrl+Enter
5. Folder Scrolling	Ctrl+Up/Down
6. Search for unlisted folders AKL	Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L
7. Mark all messages in the current folder as read	Ctrl+M

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----------ADDRESS BOOK----------

1. Open address book	Ctrl+O
2. Create new contact	Ctrl+T
3. Create new group	Ctrl+G
4. Cut	Ctrl+X
5. Copy	Ctrl+C
6. Insert	Ctrl+V
7. Properties	Ctrl+Enter
8. Create a message	Shift+Enter
9. Refresh	F5
10. LDAP search	F7

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----------MISCELLANEOUS----------

1. Edit quick templates	Ctrl+Shift+Q
2. View log	Ctrl+Shift+A
3. Show/hide message header	Ctrl+Shift+H
4. Show/hide kludges	Ctrl+Shift+K
5. Show/hide log panel	Ctrl+Shift+L
6. Message auto-view	Ctrl+Shift+M
7. Mail ticker auto-view	Ctrl+Shift+T
8. Address auto-view	Ctrl+Shift+O
9. Toggle full/short menu LK	Ctrl+Shift+Alt+/
10. Message search	F7
11. Address book	F8
12. Set account access password	Ctrl+F12
13. Account properties	Ctrl+Shift+P
14. Get new mail	F2
15. Send queued mail	Shift+F2
16. Check mail for all accounts	Alt+f2 mouse click on Shift+ "get new mail"
17. Send queued mail for all accounts	Shift+Alt+F2 mouse click on Shift+ "send queued mail"
18. Dispatch all messages on server	Ctrl+Shift+F2
19. Dispatch only new messages on server	Ctrl+F2
20. To the next window (account tree, message list window, message view window)	Tab
21. To the attach tabs	Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab
22. Menu	F10
23. Local menu	Alt+F10
24. Switch to another window	Alt+F6
25. Exit	Alt+X
26. About	Alt+F1
27. Add a filtering string while in Sorting Office	Alt+Ins
28. Smart Bat	F6
29. Edit Shortcuts	Alt+F12

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----------MOUSE SHORTCUTS----------

1. Filter out all messages with same field (From:, To:, Subject:, etc)	Alt+mouse click on a field (From:, To:, Subject:, etc)
2. Undo that filter	Ctrl+=, Esc
3. Change folder position DG	Alt+mouse
4. Move a folder inside another folder DG	Alt+Ctrl+mouse
5. Select a few messages (elective selection)	Ctrl+mouse
6. Copy message	Ctrl+drag 'n' drop
7. Invoke setup columns dialog	Right click on the column header of the message list

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____________________|Credits|____________________

Original from: Dmitry Potapenko <dpotapen@jeo.ru>
>With the additions from:
Dmitriy Gradskov gradskov@bigfoot.com
Garry V. Dorohin dorohin@ssga.ru
Andrew K. Lovetski lovetski@softhome.net
Lena Kokoulina lena@eriang.erl.e-burg.su
Peter Palmreuther thebat@zentrumderarbeit.org
HTML conversion: John Seymour jseymour@fastmail.fm

Created on ... June 22, 2001