Re: Unticking

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Quoth David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>:
> Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
>
>> AFAIK the only way to untick an article in the Summary buffer is via
>> 'clear-mark-*', which leaves an article marked 'unread' as well as no
>> longer 'ticked', so I've cobbled together this function to untick an
>> article in the Summary buffer but leave the article marked 'read':
>
> *tries playing around with it a little*
>
> Using default keybindings, '!' will tick an article, 'd' will mark an
> article as read (and unticked), and 'M SPC' will mark an article as
> unread (and unticked).  'd' is bound to
> `gnus-summary-mark-as-read-forward', and seems to do what you want.

You're right!  what a thinko!  It never occurred to me that 'read' and
'ticked' were mutually exclusive states... I always thought of it in
terms of ticking a read article, and then removing the tick leaving only
its readness...

Thanks for straightening me out!

Sebastian