From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76806 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Unmark old messages Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:28:49 +0000 Message-ID: <87y65haq5a.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87aahxc8lw.fsf_-_@gmx.co.uk> <87sjvp9ewj.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> <8762slc70a.fsf@gmx.co.uk> <87oc6d9d06.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297808957 2249 80.91.229.12 (15 Feb 2011 22:29:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:29:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M25145@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Feb 15 23:29:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTOS-0008HT-5D for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:29:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTO2-0003XZ-Po; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:28:46 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTO1-0003XF-7R for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:28:45 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTNz-0005ra-GH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:28:44 -0600 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.42]) by quimby.gnus.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PpTNx-0002dA-Ss for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:28:42 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2011 22:28:35 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO DeuxExMachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu001) with SMTP; 15 Feb 2011 23:28:35 +0100 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX182LqRtTr82utMxHVZWlA9Zl05ADiM465UZDHIK6E Gy7GTHpa1e2PqH In-Reply-To: <87oc6d9d06.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> ("Adam =?utf-8?Q?Sj?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=B8gren=22's?= message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:58:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76806 Archived-At: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sj=C3=B8gren) writes: > Ah, ok. You can do that by first marking the messages you want to > process, using #, and then you can go C-u M-u to "unread" them all at > once. Hmmm, I think this cleared the 'read' mark, but now (due to my error as below), the 'tick' is still there for ALL articles... > > Maybe you can explain why you want to do this? Perhaps the problem can > be solved in some other way (like always showing read messages in some > groups). I marked a bunch of messages as read by accident while configuring a second imap server, and tried to revert it. Attempting this, I unfortunately marked all as 'ticked'! So, for the future, I'd like to understand:=20 1) How to remove ALL marks from articles in a Summary buffer. 2) How to remove all read marks (E, o and what more?), and leave other marks (e.g. 'ticks' intact. Thanks, --=20 Johnny http://www.seashepherd.org/