A Mail keyboard shortcut I set sometimes works and sometimes doesn't - why?

Question

Using the keyboard shortcut panel I changed the keyboard shortcut for "Send" to CMD+E.
After quitting and restarting Mail I can see in the menus that this is showing CMD+E now.
Problem is - when composing a message sometimes CMD+E works and the mail gets sent and sometimes I just get a beep and nothing happens.
Why would that be?
doug
iMac G5 20" / iSight   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   1.5 GB RAM

Answer 1

My point is that the behavior that motivated your post is not necessarily a bug itself. The bug is somewhere else. The reason sometimes it works as you expect and sometimes it doesn't could very well be that sometimes the other command is enabled (thus causing it to be chosen) and sometimes it isn't (thus causing Send to be chosen).
Actually, I've just tried it, out of curiosity, and the Edit > Find > Use Selection for Find is indeed sometimes enabled and sometimes disabled when a new message is created depending on where the cursor is located, so I maintain that what you call second bug is probably not a bug at all. Rather it's expected behavior resulting from a conflict that you've introduced.
The bug is somewhere else, namely whatever it is that prevents the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane to realize that there is a conflict and whatever it is that causes the shortcut to disappear from the other command when its menu is displayed. But that's not what is causing the behavior that motivated your question. That behavior is the expected behavior when two commands have the same keyboard shortcut and the one that gets the first chance at handling the command is sometimes enabled and sometimes disabled.
Does it sound like I have it right?
Almost.
iMac G5 17" (iSight)   Mac OS X (10.4.4)