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From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
To: Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org>
Cc: , info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fat finger produces #
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:51:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgtu349t.fsf@yandex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y29ette2.fsf@codeisgreat.org> (Pankaj Jangid's message of "Fri, 06 Aug 2021 22:14:37 +0530")

Dear Pankaj
>>>>> Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

    > Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:
    >> I have inadvertently depressed some key and I've ended up with a
    >> hash symbol '#' alongside the name of a RSS feed newsgroup. What
    >> does the symbol mean and how can I get rid of it?

    > The key that you have pressed is ‘#’ key. You can mark multiple
    > articles using ‘#’ key and then do some processing on all of
    > them. For example, expire them.

    > To get rid of the mark you can press either keys ‘M P u’ in
    > sequence or ‘M-#’ i.e. meta+hash.

Thanks for this. Meta+hash worked for me. Instead of panicking I should
just did "C-h c #" to find the command "gnus-topic-mark-topic"! Thanks
again.

Best wishes,

Colin.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-06 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-06 16:30 Colin Baxter
2021-08-06 16:44 ` Pankaj Jangid
2021-08-06 16:51   ` Colin Baxter [this message]
2021-08-06 21:53     ` Michael Heerdegen

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