Edit ,

selects the whole thing doesn't it?  When I want to clear out an entire Acme window I just do Edit ,d for example.

I don't really use Acme Mail though, so I'm unsure of what the difference is in "marking" vs "selecting"

Daev

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
is there a way to mark *all* messages in a mail box for later
processing - e.g.  Delmesg.  in nedmail one can do g/pattern/d
unfortunately

Edit ,x/pattern/ --+

marks only one.