Re: Mark all messages in folder read

[Byrial Jensen]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 16:13:12 -0600, David Champion wrote:
> Just a small tip: in a large mailbox, tagging "~A" is noticeably faster
> than "."

No, it is not. There are equal fast because of a little hack in the
code (in the function mutt_check_simple in pattern.c) which checks
for "." and converts it to "~Ã".

> or ".*".  The latter performs a regular expression match
> against all messages, while the former just selects everything with no
> further criteria.

Yes, that's true for ".*".