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Keyboard shortcut to click a button in a dropdown window in Thunderbird Mac?

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I have recently migrated from Thunderbird 3 on an ancient Mac running OS X 10.4.11 to a brand-new Mac running OS X 10.9.3. The migration was pretty much seamless and I am loving the new Thunderbird's many worthwhile features! However...

There is ONE thing I do all the time that is not supported by a keyboard shortcut, and I haven't been able to find anything in the Support forums that specifically relates to it. When I start an email and decide I want to throw it away, I hit Command W (Close), and get a dropdown window that offers me the choices of Save (as Draft in my case), Don't Save, and Cancel. The Esc key activates Cancel, of course, but neither of the other buttons has a keyboard shortcut.

This is almost the only time I have to grab my mouse when I use TB and I find it very frustrating. I have other applications on this Mac that can accept keyboard shortcuts inside these windows, and really miss it in TB. Is there a way to add these shortcuts? I would love to be able to use Command D to close an unsent message without saving.

Several people have talked about keyconfig, but it's unclear whether it works on this version of TB Mac and it's also unclear whether it allows access to the buttons I want to control. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I have recently migrated from Thunderbird 3 on an ancient Mac running OS X 10.4.11 to a brand-new Mac running OS X 10.9.3. The migration was pretty much seamless and I am loving the new Thunderbird's many worthwhile features! However... There is ONE thing I do all the time that is not supported by a keyboard shortcut, and I haven't been able to find anything in the Support forums that specifically relates to it. When I start an email and decide I want to throw it away, I hit Command W (Close), and get a dropdown window that offers me the choices of Save (as Draft in my case), Don't Save, and Cancel. The Esc key activates Cancel, of course, but neither of the other buttons has a keyboard shortcut. This is almost the only time I have to grab my mouse when I use TB and I find it very frustrating. I have other applications on this Mac that can accept keyboard shortcuts inside these windows, and really miss it in TB. Is there a way to add these shortcuts? I would love to be able to use Command D to close an unsent message without saving. Several people have talked about keyconfig, but it's unclear whether it works on this version of TB Mac and it's also unclear whether it allows access to the buttons I want to control. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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The keyconfig add-on is installed and working here in TB 24 & 32, but to install it you may have to first install this add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/checkcompatibility/

I did find instructions for creating a key shortcut for Save as Draft and close the window (Ctrl-S is the default key for Save as Draft), so you may be able to adapt this to Don't Save (although on Windows, Alt-N is the default key for the Don't Save command).

You may have more luck posting this question in the keyconfig forum cited in the first link.

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The keyconfig add-on is installed and working here in TB 24 & 32, but to install it you may have to first install this add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/checkcompatibility/

I did find instructions for creating a key shortcut for Save as Draft and close the window (Ctrl-S is the default key for Save as Draft), so you may be able to adapt this to Don't Save (although on Windows, Alt-N is the default key for the Don't Save command).

You may have more luck posting this question in the keyconfig forum cited in the first link.

mmetlay
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Thank you so much! You inadvertently gave me the exact answer to my question. I don't need keyconfig, I just needed to learn that Ctrl N gets rid of the message without saving a draft and Ctrl S saves it as a draft! Those are the Mac equivalents to the Windows commands that use Alt.

Many many thanks!