Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus

[unoder.spam@spam.jay.net (Martin Jørgensen)]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, May 31 2006, Martin Jørgensen wrote:
>
>> How do I mark your message as "unread" so it'll automatically show
>> up when I have restarted gnus? 
>
> See (info "(gnus)Setting Marks").  Especially `!' and `M-u':

Oh, damn. I should have seen that and perhaps I did, but got confused by
this "Clear all readedness-marks". I should have read the last in that line.

> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Setting Marks") ]
> | `M c'
> | `M-u'
> |      Clear all readedness-marks from the current article
> |      (`gnus-summary-clear-mark-forward').  In other words, mark the
> |      article as unread.
> | 
> | `M t'
> | `!'
> |      Tick the current article (`gnus-summary-tick-article-forward').
> |      *Note Article Caching::.
> `----
>
>> I tried to look in the manual, but there was so much information.
>
> When I use `i mark' (lookup "mark" in the index) in the Gnus manual,
> the first match is (info "(gnus)Marking Articles") which contains an
> menu entry called "How to set and remove marks." pointing to the
> appropriate node:
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Marking Articles") ]
> | * Setting Marks::               How to set and remove marks.
> `----

I think I looked there too, but now I can see it's pretty straight
forward, as you're also writing.

> If you tell us the keywords you (unsuccessfully) used to search in the
> manual, we might be able to improve the manual.

I didn't use them, because I forgot the difference between "apropos" and
all the other C-h things... So therefore I just got into those
"info"-pages somehow and manually navigated down to gnus with C-p +
C-n + enter... Then I navigated up with U, next with n and space and p
for previous... So I typed space a lot of times... But that ofcourse
also isn't the most efficient way of skimming the manual, but the good
thing is that next time I probably better regognize where something I'm
looking for is described...

For instance I was glad to find out what those letters meant: "O", "R",
"A".. etc, next to the name in the summary-view... I think I can find it
quicker and quicker, the more I practice looking in the manual - and it
actually looks like a good manual, like other people are telling too...


Best regards
Martin Jørgensen

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