From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x h o in Rmail ? Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:32:17 +0200 Organization: GNU's NOT Unix! Message-ID: <201806011332.w51DWH65011976@localhost.localdomain> References: <87d0xe2rcv.fsf@maillard.im> <83po1ag8i7.fsf@gnu.org> <201806010956.w519uXJZ011139@localhost.localdomain> <83fu26fxqt.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527859876 18417 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2018 13:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:31:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Rmail on GNU Emacs/27.0.50 (27.0.50) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 01 15:31:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk9A-0004ii-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:31:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55755 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOkBH-0001Vr-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:33:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55218) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOkAN-0001Uj-LG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOkAM-0001Ip-Gv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:38235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOkAG-0001AV-VT; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:32:21 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 77.136.205.129 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (129.205.136.77.rev.sfr.net [77.136.205.129]) (Authenticated sender: xavier@maillard.im) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3BC85240016; Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:32:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w51DWH39011977; Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:32:17 +0200 Original-Received: (from xavier@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w51DWH65011976; Fri, 1 Jun 2018 15:32:17 +0200 In-reply-to: <83fu26fxqt.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:21:46 +0300) Jabber-ID: xavier@maillard.im X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.193 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116944 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:21:46 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:56:33 +0200 > > From: Xavier Maillard > > 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 -- Xavier Maillard e/j:xavier@maillard.im w:www.maillard.im m: 06 52 18 63 43 GPG: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B