Re: nnimap 0.131 asks twice when saving marked articles

[era@iki.fi]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:45:31 +0200, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
posted to gmane.emacs.gnus.general:
 > era@iki.fi writes:
 >> I noticed that setting the process mark on a bunch of articles and
 >> then pressing `o' works as expected up to the point when I'd expect
 >> the thing to be done ... but then it starts asking me again where to
 >> file messages, this time one by one (and failing, since they were
 >> already batch moved from underneath).
 > 'o' and process marks work in a special way; instead of saving all
 > articles to one file, it queries you for a file to save each process
 > marked message in.
 >> I'm saving to another IMAP folder on the same server.
 > With 'o'?  'o' saves to a rmail file on local disk, at least in my
 > Gnus.

OK, I guess this needs a bit of clarification. Here's the deal: I'm
getting mail into my regular INBOX and I archive it to a folder based
on what sort of action is required; change requests go in a TODO
folder, stupid jokes from well-intentioned people who just discovered
email go in junk, etc. So I want to move messages to another folder,
and I discovered that (generally speaking) the `o' command does that.

Here's how it's defined here:

  o runs the command gnus-summary-save-article
     which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum'.
  (gnus-summary-save-article &optional N NOT-SAVED)

  Save the current article using the default saver function.
  If N is a positive number, save the N next articles.
  If N is a negative number, save the N previous articles.
  If N is nil and any articles have been marked with the process mark,
  save those articles instead.
  The variable `gnus-default-article-saver' specifies the saver function.

And:

  gnus-default-article-saver's value is 
  gnus-summary-move-article

  Documentation:
  A function to save articles in your favourite format.
  The function must be interactively callable (in other words, it must
  be an Emacs command).

  Gnus provides the following functions:

  * gnus-summary-save-in-rmail (Rmail format)
  * gnus-summary-save-in-mail (Unix mail format)
  * gnus-summary-save-in-folder (MH folder)
  * gnus-summary-save-in-file (article format)
  * gnus-summary-save-in-vm (use VM's folder format)
  * gnus-summary-write-to-file (article format -- overwrite).

  You can customize this variable.

  Defined in `gnus-art'.

And:

  gnus-summary-move-article is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum'.
  (gnus-summary-move-article &optional N TO-NEWSGROUP SELECT-METHOD ACTION)

  Move the current article to a different newsgroup.
  If N is a positive number, move the N next articles.
  If N is a negative number, move the N previous articles.
  If N is nil and any articles have been marked with the process mark,
  move those articles instead.
  If TO-NEWSGROUP is string, do not prompt for a newsgroup to move to.
  If SELECT-METHOD is non-nil, do not move to a specific newsgroup, but
  re-spool using this method.

  For this function to work, both the current newsgroup and the
  newsgroup that you want to move to have to support the `request-move'
  and `request-accept' functions.

  ACTION can be either `move' (the default), `crosspost' or `copy'.

Admittedly it doesn't say anything about process/prefix convention so
perhaps it was misguided to use it in the first place. But since it
almost works, making it work "right" might be worth the effort.

 > Maybe what you want to do instead is to use `B c' to copy the articles
 > between two IMAP folders?  It support process mark in a nicer way, as
 > well.

Thanks for the pointer; I'll try using that (or rather `B m') instead.

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