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pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> [Jesper Harder]
>
>> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (Fran.ois Pinard) writes:
>
>> > At first glance, I would believe that `M P a' should mark all
>> > articles, as its name implies.
>
>> `M P b' does (nearly) the same thing.  It is faster and generally
>> better unless you want to decode some multipart binary.  Does `M P b'
>> also trigger the error?
>
> `M P b' does not trigger the error on the offending article, and does
> indeed mark all articles.  Thanks for the suggestion.

Maybe the documentation (especially the menu) should be improved.

It wasn't obvious to me that `M P b' was the command I really wanted to
use until I wondered why `M P a' was so slooow and looked at the code.