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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-x h o in Rmail ?
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:21:46 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fu26fxqt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201806010956.w519uXJZ011139@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:56:33 +0200)

> 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?

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.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-01 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-29 19:29 C-x h o in Rmail ? Xavier Maillard
2018-06-01  9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01  9:56   ` Xavier Maillard
2018-06-01 13:21     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-01 13:32       ` Xavier Maillard
2018-06-01 13:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-01 14:18           ` Xavier Maillard

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