Re: deleting messages in nndoc?

[Danny Siu <dsiu@Adobe.COM>]

Kai Grossjohann writes:

  >>>>>> Aharon Schkolnik writes:
  Aharon> [...] The thing is, that I want to DELETE messages from the group
  Aharon> ! I can kill messages, but I can't delete them!  That was the
  Aharon> whole problem to begin with. Is it Gnus, or is it me ?

  Kai> What are you trying to do to delete a message?  Did you type B DEL?
  Kai> Did you type d?  Did you type C-k?  Did you type E?

  Kai> A message can be marked

  Kai>   - unread (" "): fresh message, always show read ("r"): message has
  Kai> been seen, but keep it and show when user asks for it expirable
  Kai> ("E"): delete message from disks after expire time (default is 7
  Kai> weeks) at the next expiry run (default is that quitting a group with
  Kai> q runs expiry) ticked ("!"): keep message, always show it

  Kai> Reading a message usually marks it as read.  Use key d.

  Kai> If auto-expire is turned on for the group (via a group parameter or
  Kai> the variable gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups), reading a message
  Kai> automatically marks it expirable.

  Kai> To explicitly mark a message expirable, type E.

  Kai> If total-expire is turned on for a group (via group parameter or
  Kai> variable gnus-total-expirable-newsgroups), messages that are marked
  Kai> read are also expirable!

  Kai> To explicitly mark a message as ticked, use ! or u.

Should we put Kai's clear and concise explanation about read marks in the
manual?  

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