Select message by header

Select message by header

[Julien Cubizolles]

What's the best way to mark all messages according to the value of a
header ?

Let's say I want to move all messages from a given author, I can do from
a Summary buffer :

/ a name-of-the-author, then M P b, then B m name-of-group-where-to
move, then / w to recover the summary

The filtering/unfiltering feels unnecessary here

Or I can do 
& From name-of-the-author, then B m but then gnus asks for the
name-of-group-where-to-move for each message

How to get the best of both methods ?

Julien.


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Re: Select message by header

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> Let's say I want to move all messages from a given author, I can do from
> a Summary buffer :
>
> / a name-of-the-author, then M P b, then B m name-of-group-where-to
> move, then / w to recover the summary

You could just bind that to a keyboard macro or something...

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Re: Select message by header

[Julien Cubizolles]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> Let's say I want to move all messages from a given author, I can do from
>> a Summary buffer :
>>
>> / a name-of-the-author, then M P b, then B m name-of-group-where-to
>> move, then / w to recover the summary
>
> You could just bind that to a keyboard macro or something...

But then the macro will be specific to the author name and to the name
of the group I used when I defined it. I was looking for a function
asking me the name of the author and the name of the function to perform
on each message of this author.




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Re: Select message by header

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> But then the macro will be specific to the author name and to the name
> of the group I used when I defined it. I was looking for a function
> asking me the name of the author and the name of the function to perform
> on each message of this author.

Just look at the definitions of the commands in question.  Writing a
small function to call these commands in the right sequence should be
pretty easy, even if you don't know much about Emacs Lisp.  :-)

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Re: Select message by header

[Julien Cubizolles]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
>
>> But then the macro will be specific to the author name and to the name
>> of the group I used when I defined it. I was looking for a function
>> asking me the name of the author and the name of the function to perform
>> on each message of this author.
>
> Just look at the definitions of the commands in question.  Writing a
> small function to call these commands in the right sequence should be
> pretty easy, even if you don't know much about Emacs Lisp.  :-)

I'll give it a try, and hopefully learn a bit of Lisp in the process.