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From: "Harry Putnam" <hput3@fastmail.fm>
To: "James Thomas" <jimjoe@gmx.net>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using (`gnus-summary-universal-argument')
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 09:41:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11306fbc-e44c-4f93-bf92-7fb4fc1b0d79@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0szerpt.fsf@gmx.net>


[...]

> So it has to do with *process marked* articles. Btw, here's the
> docstring of 'J #':

Thanks, that was the big stumble I was making   Failure to process mark initially

>   Mark the next N articles as downloadable.
>   If N is negative, mark backward instead. If UNMARK is non-nil, remove
>   the mark instead. The difference between N and the actual number of
>   articles marked is returned.

> So you should simply try 'C-u 5037 J #' without anything before it.

Did you actually try that?  Because if you had you would know that it does not work.
It seems mass marking Messages with the download mark is one of those rare
things that require M-&
[..]

Thanks for the other good tips


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-04 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-02 18:35 hput
2023-04-04 12:50 ` James Thomas
2023-04-04 13:41   ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2023-04-06  0:01     ` James Thomas

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