From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to tick entire thread Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:43:01 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d4jepukq.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k5dnqhzm.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220885361 1694 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2008 14:49:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:49:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 16:50:17 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kci3n-0000Yx-Lz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:49:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45540 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kci2n-0002HR-Rk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:48:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KchxR-0007bc-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KchxQ-0007av-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:43:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37431 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KchxQ-0007ap-AU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34807 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KchxQ-00063y-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KchxL-0000iC-Lg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:43:07 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.162.73.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:43:07 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:43:07 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u/6bWGXyY075GGzGLKEEmH2ebjc= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57336 Archived-At: Niels Giesen writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Is there a command to tick or even better mark dormant a whole thread >> in one go? >> >> I'm probably blind but looking though the available commands with the >> term `tick' in them I didn't find one that appears to do that. >> >> >> > > Under the presumption you are talking about gnus, I think you mean: I inadvertently posted here rather than the gnus group. Saw my error and then tried to cancel my post... apparently the cancellation did not work. But still got the answer I was after... thanks > C-M-k runs the command gnus-summary-kill-thread > which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-sum.el'. > It is bound to C-M-k, T k, . > (gnus-summary-kill-thread &optional UNMARK) > > Mark articles under current thread as read. > If the prefix argument is positive, remove any kinds of marks. > If the prefix argument is negative, tick articles instead. Yup thats what I wanted... thanks again