From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/988 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Re-sorting *lots* of old mail Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:45:27 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667832 9224 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:37:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: iota.cis.ohio-state.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ia16lm3Yq7nlpwJY7L+uHbRdum0= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1128 Original-Lines: 18 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1128 Tue Jan 17 17:28:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:988 Archived-At: Peter Davis 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