From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus temporary group? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:09 +0200 Message-ID: <874mw3sgya.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> References: <87bnqboqbu.fsf@gmail.com> <878ulfsxo1.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> <874mw3opoi.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411144807 32059 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2014 16:40:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:40:07 +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 Sep 19 18:40:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1Dy-0000gZ-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1Dy-00048u-6C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41346) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1Di-00048d-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:39:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1Da-0002vq-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1Da-0002uw-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XV1DU-0000UA-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: from 180eps.cdf.udc.es ([193.147.37.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: from aluaces by 180eps.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:39:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 180eps.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nhLNKc8lcTVHCz3KIPkPLvlJ/Ng= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100028 Archived-At: On 19 sep 2014, torys.anderson@gmail.com wrote: > >> Alberto Luaces 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