Re: mail split with multiple backends

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 21 Oct 2000, Rob Browning wrote:

> Ignoring my misunderstanding for a minute, as a utility issue, I
> tend to feel that there should be separate commands for "mark this
> article as <FOO>" and "mark this article and all cross references as
> <FOO>".  It would be nice to be able to hit "d" for mark as deleted,
> and "C-u d" to get all the cross-references too.  It might also be
> nice to have a per-backend flag so that you could invert the sense
> of these commands.  That way I could set the flag oppositely for my
> mail and news backends.  In one "d" means mark this article.  In the
> other, "d" means mark this article and all crossreferences.

I want this too.  In fact, I suggested this in a discussion way back
when; this has come up on the Gnus list a couple of times.

(I didn't suggest these key bindings -- `C-u d' now means mark 4
articles as read, I think -- but that's just a minor matter which
barely justifies mentioning.)

kai
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