Re: Process-marking all unread articles

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Kai Gro^[-Aß^[-Bjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
> 
> > Does it work to narrow the buffer to the articles marked with SPC
> > first?
> > 
> > / m SPC RET
> 
> This helps, thanks.  Now I can do the required operation with
> something like `/m SPC RET M P b M-& !' optionally followed by `/w' to 
> pop the process mark set.
> 
> But now I've gotten all cocky and would like to make the thing be a
> Lisp function rather than a keyboard macro.  In that case `/m SPC RET' 
> is replaced with a simple (gnus-summary-limit-to-marks " "), and `M P
> b' with (gnus-uu-mark-buffer).  However, I don't know how to emulate
> M-& followed by a command.
> 
> Is there a way to do what M-& does, but from Lisp, i.e. iterate
> through process-marked articles in a way?

But you've forgotten to use Kai's patented `C-u 1000 !'  : )