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From: Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus temporary group?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mw3sgya.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874mw3opoi.fsf@gmail.com

On 19 sep 2014, torys.anderson@gmail.com wrote:

>
>> Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> writes:
>>
>>> On 19 sep 2014, torys.anderson@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a school class that will be sending me lots of email, which
>>>> I want to keep in its own folder. But when the semester is over I
>>>> will want to disolve that folder and archive the emails back in my
>>>> mail.misc. What's the preferred solution for a case like this?
>>>
>>> I don't know if it is the "preferred", but moving all the mails back
>>> to mail.misc with B-m and then, in the summary buffer, deleting the
>>> group with G-DEL should work.
>
>
>
> yeah, that sounds simple enough. I wasn't sure if there is a way of
> defining a persistent "view" of a folder that would allow me to filter
> by a regexp, and then I would just delete the view (without physically
> moving anything).

Maybe you can do the other way around: after you have finished the
semester, make a virtual group that contains that folder and the main
folder, therefore having only one group to check and archive, without
moving anything.

-- 
Alberto




  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-19 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-19 10:30 Gnus temporary group? Tory S. Anderson
2014-09-19 10:38 ` Alberto Luaces
2014-09-19 10:44   ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-09-19 16:39     ` Alberto Luaces [this message]
2014-09-19 20:49     ` Garreau, Alexandre
2014-09-21  2:44     ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] <mailman.9178.1411122627.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-19 23:46 ` Emanuel Berg

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