B DEL

B DEL

[Vin Shelton]

I'm a long-time user of gnus to read news, but I'm in the process of
biting the bullet and learning to use gnus to read my mail.  I'm using 
V5.6.45 under XEmacs-21.1.3, but I don't think my problem is
version-specific.

I don't want to use any kind of expiry on my email groups, so I use
'B DEL' to delete the mail messages I don't want to keep.  Well,
actually, I use a bunch of '#'s followed by 'B DEL'.  Therein lies my
problem - 'B DEL' behaves very differently depending on whether or not 
the process mark is active - try this scenarioon for size:
  - I read through a bunch of messages in a folder.
  - As I read through the messages, I might have process-marked some
    of them, or maybe not.
  - I come  to the last message in the folder - I don't want to delete
    the last message, but I _may_ want to delete other messages in the
    folder which are already process-marked.  In which case, 'B DEL'
    is exactly what I want to do.  Or there may be no messages
    process-marked, in which case 'B DEL' is not what I want, because
    it will delete the last message.

Is there any way to delete all process-marked messages, but do nothing
if there are no process-marked messages?  I've tried looking for an
answer for this in the info and the FAQ, but so far I haven't found
anything.  I'm sure I could create some elisp to do this, but surely
there must be some built-in code to do this, right?

TIA,
  vin shelton

-- 
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.         T.S. Eliot

Re: B DEL

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Vin Shelton <acs@xemacs.org> writes:

  > I don't want to use any kind of expiry on my email groups

Why not?  You could hit `E' on the messages you want to delete, and
they will be automatically deleted after a while.  You even get to
define `a while' :-)

kai
-- 
Life is hard and then you die.

Re: B DEL

[Colin Rafferty]

Kai Grossjohann writes:
> Vin Shelton <acs@xemacs.org> writes:

>> I don't want to use any kind of expiry on my email groups

> Why not?  You could hit `E' on the messages you want to delete, and
> they will be automatically deleted after a while.  You even get to
> define `a while' :-)

For example, 'immediate will do the expire as you leave the group.
Exactly as you want.

-- 
Colin