Re: still puzzled by what should be a common idiom

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

In article <m11zelmz0z.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

  randal> I go into a fat folder and I want to narrow to just those
  randal> items that have a body that matches "foo".

  randal> What I've been doing so far is

  randal> & Body <ret> foo <ret> #
  randal> (wait for searches to set mark)
  randal> then "search" in the summary for #, which musses up if the subject has # too

  randal> What's the right ding-y way to do this?

'/ n' narrows to articles marked with #. You can then use '/ w' to
widen the Summary buffer back to the way it was before the narrowing.

Thanks to Kai who posted this once upon a time.

Well, here's larsi's explanation from the manual at Gnus->The Summary
Buffer->Limiting:

`/ n'
     Limit the summary buffer to the current article
     (`gnus-summary-limit-to-articles').  Uses the process/prefix
     convention (*note Process/Prefix::.).

`/ w'
     Pop the previous limit off the stack and restore it
     (`gnus-summary-pop-limit').  If given a prefix, pop all limits off
     the stack.

bw
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