Re: C-x h o in Rmail ?

[Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>]

> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:21:46 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:56:33 +0200
> > From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > And "C-x h" in this context does what, exactly, according to your
> > > dream?  You say "a bunch of messages", which presumably requires to
> > > specify that bunch in some way.  How did "C-x h" do that?
> > 
> > You are right, I should have mentionned the context.
> > 
> > According to the help entry, C-x h is bound to `mark-whole-buffer`.
> > 
> > So in my context, let's say I opened my Rmail file (which is big) and
> > I want to classify all mails from the help-gnu-emacs to another RMail
> > file, I'd probably do M-C-r help-gnu-emacs@ RET and *then* use C-x h
> > to select all messsages to output into the another file.
> 
> And you would do all that in the Summary buffer, right?

Correct.

> Anyway, I think you were dreaming: such a facility was never part of
> Rmail.  I don't see the region being referenced anywhere in the
> relevant commands, past and present.  Maybe you had your local changes
> which allowed this.

Humm, maybe. I will have to look after this in one of my oldest config
files thus. I am curious how Rmail users are dealing with that use case.

Eli, do you use Rmail ? Is this something you think could be useful
for other people ?

Regards
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