Re: A couple of questions (about search and mark)

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:33:21 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.cone
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> Sam Varshavchik writes:
> 
>> [email protected] writes:
>> 
>>> Sam Varshavchik writes:
>>> 
>>>> [email protected] writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've been mostly happy with Cone, but I still have some 
>>>>> difficulties:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. When I search for something, the matched messages turn bold/white and 
>>>>> get a "check" sign; is there a way to only show those messages? If I'm in a 
>>>>> folder with 2000 messages it's very hard to find those messages (something 
>>>>> like alpine's "zoom" could be handy).
>>>> 
>>>> The left/right keys jump the cursor to the previous/next matched message.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the reply. And how do I unmatch/unselect the messages? Other than 
>>> searching for a bogus string, I guess.
>> 
>> Press spacebar to select/unselect an individual message. The ';' 'R' key 
>> sequence unselects all messages.
>> 
>> All the key commands are shown at the bottom.
>> 
>>>>> 2. Since I cannot pipe messages to programs (like bogofilter or sa-learn), 
>>>>> I'm moving spam messages from my Inbox to a maildir upon which I regularly 
>>>>> run sa-learn. This kind of works, my problem is, when I have many spam 
>>>>> messages, how can I select and move them to the Junk folder all at once?
>>>> 
>>>> Search for them and match them. "O", the move command, moves all 
>>>> matched/selected messages to another folder.
>>> 
>>> I selected a couple of messages with the "space" key and tried to move them, 
>>> but only the currently highlighted message got moved. The other selected 
>>> (checked) messages just remained in the same folder, still checked.
>>> Any more suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Press semicolon, ';', before 'O'. Make yourself familiar with the prompts at 
>> the bottom of the screen.
> 
> I got a bit familiar with the lower menu, but ; will just prompt for a 
> search. Specific case: in my Spam folder right now there are 2 random 
> messages. I could either mark them using the space bar or, as you suggested, 
> use a search to match them. I followed your advice and used the search and 
> matched both messages in the folder. When I hit O to move them, I still am 
> offered to move only the 1 message that came first in the search.
> I am still unable to move multiple messages. What am I missing?

Press ; before pressing O, as I said.

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