From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78123 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: how to mark all but a number as read Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:53:13 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301331209 10616 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2011 16:53:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:53:29 +0000 (UTC) To: nognus Original-X-From: ding-owner+M26434@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Mar 28 18:53:25 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 1Q4Fgy-0008Qt-9o for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:53:24 +0200 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 1Q4FgX-0004e4-Uj; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4FgV-0004dn-3j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4FgS-0004we-4p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f44.google.com ([209.85.161.44]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4FgQ-00034V-AQ for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:52:50 +0200 Original-Received: by fxm15 with SMTP id 15so4355437fxm.17 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:52:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=GZJzCbwGv/DK2GrLNlh/HnGNiSiXfj5VQ08OKGEwCv0=; b=vi1bE/VuX03rINxz2mLXV5ovA1xIU5z6a4JP/ZTeezm0+RLD073a23cvoOfEJoAkZA WfPNBdudRSot17X1OT2biDNsgCvY5ZewPgECQ7mGLWJFkRL8/hGd01p426sQrafQ4PkT d9r27CUIjiscFp0tcJZ3t0Ax8N6FI4UzL1sLE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:organization:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; b=gK3q3SQB4BkZ1lBTLCxY2L9fElR32R86RK0FJ6RFWE/6aHTskt2NnCtDAslNNMuPuc nArXIZ/tB6X9aXKMbgrLxtK4B4+Cg9BMz6afFCqVvwmckEzz4myx03QeEggjJ8LaTYvR 6uEWoSbyKJ9S3VPk1Msh47TXoaKfAAqGOqTuk= Original-Received: by 10.223.6.11 with SMTP id 11mr4655662fax.93.1301331164419; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from asus1015pem (254.Red-83-39-155.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.39.155.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm1589244fae.23.2011.03.28.09.52.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:52:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from shamrock by asus1015pem with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4Ekr-000586-SY for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:53:21 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78123 Archived-At: Reconstructing my gnus setup I have resubscribed to an nntp group with something like 29000 articles unread in it. I want to use the agent. How can I mark all but the most recent N (say 200) articles as read so when I do an agent fetch its doesn't fetch the lot? Is it best to mark all as read and then enter the group and type 200 as the amount to fetch, hilite all 200 and mark as unread by clearing the mark? On that subject, mark as unread would seem a pretty useful top level menu function as opposed to having to understand the complexities of marks, process marks etc - stuff like "clear mark forward" suggests complexities understood only by the boldest gnus user, is there something as simple as "mark as unread" - yes I know M-u "clears all marks of readedness". Also, wouldn't it be better for such "mark" menu entries to be under "article" rather than Gnus?