From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3555 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pkd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bulk deletion of email Date: 25 Feb 2004 23:14:42 GMT Message-ID: <87n0764v38.fsf@ID-219024.news.uni-berlin.de> References: <87hdxf9wjc.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669629 19391 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:32:23 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!ppp-124-231.98-62.inwind.IT!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-124-231.98-62.inwind.it (62.98.231.124) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1077750882 54336698 I 62.98.231.124 ([219024]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Hamster-Pg/1.13 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jZLnLNvj5ABz2L9b2FKx34EXBd4= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:3696 Original-Lines: 35 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 3696 Tue Jan 17 17:32:23 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:3555 Archived-At: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Chris Green wrote: > Fabian Braennstroem writes: > >> Is it not enough to mark the mails with '#' and delete them >> afterwards with 'B Backspace'? > > # often bites me big time when going through a group. I'll mark > things like spam and move them to a training group and then see a mail > from Mom and hit F. i delete mails i marked with `d'. you could tune this function to fit your needs: (defun gnus-summary-delete-r-articles () (interactive) (unless (eq (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)) (gnus-summary-limit-to-marks "r")) (goto-line 1) (gnus-summary-delete-article (count-lines (point-min) (point-max)))) (gnus-summary-pop-limit)) (eval-after-load "gnus-sum" '(progn (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "Bd" 'gnus-summary-delete-r-articles))) > Then I have a nice *reply* buffer with the body of everyone of those > spams in it. > > A delete me now flag would probably also help so that deletion can be > separate from expiry but I'm sure there's a reason this hasn't been > done. -- pat metheny, gary burton, chick corea, roy haynes, dave holland - like minds/country roads