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## 17. Reference

In this section you will find a few pieces of information that might be handy in making Sylpheed more clear for you in respect to the used shortcut keys, and a layout of the format of the address book.

## 17.1 Short-Cut Key List

### One-key shortcuts:

- a: create a new message
- d: delete the selected message
- f: forward the selected message#
- g: go to a specific folder through a browsing dialog
- n: jump to the next message/next part of a multipart message
- p: jump to the previous message/previous part of a multipart message
- v: switch on/off the message view
- w: same as a
- y: Opens save as... dialog

### Shortcuts to the File menu:

- Alt-F: open FILE menu
- Alt-P: print
- Alt-W: close
- Alt-Q: exit

### Shortcuts to the Edit menu

- Alt-E: open EDIT menu
- Ctrl-C: copy
- Ctrl-A: select all
- Ctrl-S: search

### Shortcuts to the View menu

- Alt-V: open VIEW menu

### Shortcuts to the Message menu

- Alt-M: open MESSAGE menu
- Alt-I: check mail for current account
- Shift-Alt-I: Check mail for all accounts
- Alt-N: compose new message
- Alt-R: reply to message
- Ctrl-Alt-R: reply to sender (contrary to reply to e.g. mailing list)
- Shift-Alt-R: reply to all (includes all addresses in To: and Cc:)
- Ctrl-F: forward message
- Shift-Ctrl-F: forward message as attachment
- Alt-O: move message
- Alt-D: delete message
- Shift-Ctrl-N: open message in new window
- Ctrl-U: view message source
- Ctrl-H: show all message headers

### Shortcuts to the Summary menu

- Alt-S: open SUMMARY menu
- Alt-X: execute (pending commands, only useful when commands are not executed immediately)
- Alt-U: update view
- Alt-G: go to other folder
- Ctrl-T: thread view
- Shift-Ctrl-T: unthread view

### Shortcuts to the Tool menu

- Alt-T: open tool menu
- Alt-A: open addressbook
- Alt-L: open logfile

## 17.2 Data Format of Address Book

The addressbook is located in /.sylpheed. It is named addressbook.xml. The general format of the addressbook is:

    < addressbook ><p>
     < common_address ><p>
        < group name="Common addresses" ><p>
        < item ><p>
         < name > Paul < /name ><p>
         < address > paul@nlpagan.net < /address ><p>
         < remarks > Writes Sylph. manual < /remarks ><p>
            < /item ><p>
        < /group ><p>
     < /common_address ><p>
    < /addressbook >

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