From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Key Combination by Mistake in gnus Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:57:36 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ha2oyizz.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405029662 15205 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2014 22:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:01:02 +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 Jul 11 00:00:56 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 1X5MOe-0007S4-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40445 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X5MOd-0008D6-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:00:55 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zBWOaSmFEO1LYsIYFREO9kIy6LI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206361 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:98628 Archived-At: Esben Stien writes: > I made a wrong key combination somehow and all mails > in a particular group is marked O. > > I tried M-x undo-only in the group buffer, but it > says that it's a read only buffer. > > Any way to fix this an return it to normal? > > It marked like 1000 mails as "O" I read you already fixed this, but still I'd like to tell you of another way. To undo things in general can be a bit unsafe (and frustrating), not to mention the method "don't save, then reboot/reselect" - it is all unpredictable, so use it, fine, but probably they shouldn't be relied upon or used habitually. Instead, why don't you just mark the articles to whatever you want them to be? For example, to mark them as unread, use gnus-summary-put-mark-as-unread-next which for me is M M u n. You said you marked "like 1000" mails "O". To instead mark them as unread, go to the top of the summary buffer, then hit `C-u 1000 M M u n'. If you want them to be marked something else the exact same principle will work, you'll just have to check the documentation for the exact function/keystroke. -- underground experts united