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

[email protected] Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:45:07 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.cone
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sam Varshavchik writes:

> [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.
>

Worked! Hmm, sorry for the trouble; the first time I tried ; prompted me for 
a search. Thank you :-) 

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