On Dec 22, 2014 at 12:12 PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 05:06:26PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Orm Finnendahl <orm.finnend...@selma.hfmdk-frankfurt.de> [12-21-14 16:36]:
Or w/o making a macro,
switch to the folder
T. to select all
;N to toggle the READ flag
On my machine T. selects all messages and ;N deletes the thread that
happens to be highlited.
Tag your messages however you want. I usually use the 'tag-pattern'
command, but you could also tag them manually.
A lot depends on how your key bindings are set up. I'd toggle help while
in the index and search for the following commands and see what their
bindings are.
I think the commands you want to run (and others are suggesting) are:
'tag-pattern' - this will tag any messages that match the pattern. I
have this bound to 'T'.
'tag-prefix' - this will run the next entered command on all the tagged
messages. I have this bound to ';'.
'clear-flag' - This will clear whatever flag is entered next. In this
case you want to clear 'N' for new. I have this bound to 'W'. So to
clear the new flag, I would enter 'WN'. I personally like the
clear-flag command more than the toggle-new command for bulk message
manipulation because the toggle-new will not only mark new messages as
read, but read messages as new.
String this together and I get 'T<pattern><enter>;WN'. This will set
all the messages matching <pattern> to read. If you already have
messages tagged, ';WN' will suffice. That is again assuming that your
key bindings are the same as mine, which is probably unlikely.
Hope this helps.
Tim
