From: David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: nnimap 0.131 asks twice when saving marked articles
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:32:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8zoex2nhjz.fsf@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluvfra83hg.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:45:31 +0200")
>>>>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 21:45:31 +0200, Simon Josefsson
>>>>> <jas@extundo.com> said:
> era@iki.fi writes:
>> I noticed that setting the process mark on a bunch of articles and
>> then pressing `o' works as expected up to the point when I'd expect
>> the thing to be done ... but then it starts asking me again where to
>> file messages, this time one by one (and failing, since they were
>> already batch moved from underneath).
> 'o' and process marks work in a special way; instead of saving all
> articles to one file, it queries you for a file to save each process
> marked message in.
The variable gnus-prompt-before-saving can control this. Set it to t
and you'll be prompted once and all the subsequent messages will be
appended to the initial file. But...
> Maybe what you want to do instead is to use `B c' to copy the articles
> between two IMAP folders? It support process mark in a nicer way, as
> well.
It sounds like that's what the OP really needs.
--
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-30 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-30 12:47 era
2003-09-30 19:45 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-30 20:32 ` David S Goldberg [this message]
2003-10-01 5:28 ` era
2003-10-01 13:42 ` David S Goldberg
2003-10-01 13:46 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-12-04 8:03 ` era
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