From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14988 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eze Ogwuma Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is this list still alive? Date: 17 Apr 1998 06:26:40 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035154092 19395 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16368 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 22:23:20 -0700 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA28325 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:29:26 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAN19324; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:03:05 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:28:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05932 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 00:27:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 3664 invoked by uid 504); 17 Apr 1998 05:27:38 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3661 invoked from network); 17 Apr 1998 05:27:38 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhost.dircon.co.uk (194.112.32.10) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 1998 05:27:37 -0000 Original-Received: from typhoon.ncc.co.uk (zcaceog@bh-cw02-129.pool.dircon.co.uk [194.112.51.129]) by mailhost.dircon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA27786; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:27:31 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: (from zcaceog@localhost) by typhoon.ncc.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA28611; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:26:41 +0100 Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "16 Apr 1998 21:38:20 -0700" Original-Lines: 43 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.4/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14988 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14988 Harry Putnam writes: > Eze Ogwuma writes: > > > Just a test to see if the list is still alive. > > > > No messages for almost 26 hours. > > I was wondering about that too. Maybe this will liven up the party. > > What uses can be made of 'M P R' (process mark by regexp) Well, if I want to process mark all the articles in the summary with the word "still" in the subject I could do "M P R" then enter the word "still". It's better than using "/s 'still' M P B" if all you want to do is act on certain articles. In addition you can save marked sets unto a stack and pop them from it. This can be useful if you have marked a whole series of articles but want to do something now to a few of them or carry out an action on one article that would automatically act as if it had been prefixed with "M-&". > What 'series' do the commands 'M P S' and 'M P s' refer to > (under 'Setting Process Marks' I think that "M P s" will mark all articles with the same subject, I'm sure you've seen that not all articles get put into the thread to which they belong to because of broken headers. When dealing with series it appears that you should use "M P s" on the original article as it seems that it will work on a subject title that is either "TITLE" or "Re: TITLE". If you mark "Re: TITLE" then "TITLE" no longer matches but "Re: Re: TITLE" might (I don't know). This is what it does in my experience but it might do something else as well. "M P S" acts like "M-& M P s". You first have to mark one of the articles from each series you wish to mark then run "M P S". -- Eze Ogwuma