From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-x h o in Rmail ? Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:21:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83fu26fxqt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0xe2rcv.fsf@maillard.im> <83po1ag8i7.fsf@gnu.org> <201806010956.w519uXJZ011139@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527859214 3122 195.159.176.226 (1 Jun 2018 13:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 13:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 01 15:20:10 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 1fOjyU-0000iK-GW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:20:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk0b-0006sC-KI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:22:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52791) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk06-0006r3-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk02-0001qC-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:21:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk02-0001py-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4462 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fOk01-0004Gn-Ok for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:21:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <201806010956.w519uXJZ011139@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:56:33 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:116943 Archived-At: > 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? 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.