From: Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: Re-sorting *lots* of old mail
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:45:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wc3hehf69jc.fsf@iota.cis.ohio-state.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1lfzsbg.fsf@bitstream.com>
Peter Davis <pd@world.std.com> writes:
>> Then why not just enter with C-u 100? And then process 100 respools
>> at a time. You could write a keyboard macro which presses something
>> like 'C-u 100 M P a B r RET' and then presses 'q' to go back to the
>> group buffer. Then, execute the keyboard macro 300 times, to arrive
>> at 30,000. It will probably still take hours, but at least it
>> probably won't exhaust memory.
>
> Not only will it take hours, but it will take hours of human
> involvement, as opposed to something I can just start running and
> leave it overnight.
>
> No better solutions around?
How exactly does 'C-u 300 C-x e' require human involvement?
--
Benjamin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-28 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-26 20:54 Peter Davis
2002-08-27 10:00 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <akgg4a$i10$1@news.bitstream.com>
[not found] ` <wc34rdg6ppe.fsf@iota.cis.ohio-state.edu>
2002-08-28 1:27 ` Peter Davis
2002-08-28 1:45 ` Benjamin Rutt [this message]
[not found] ` <m2znv7i98g.fsf@boiko_linux.demogr.mpg.de>
[not found] ` <akikj7$j60$1@news.bitstream.com>
2002-08-28 14:35 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <3csvtdky.fsf@online.no>
2002-08-31 16:18 ` Kai Großjohann
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