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Cecil Westerhof

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Dec 20, 2009, 11:01:46 AM12/20/09
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With gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable you can expire an article. I would
like to expire the marked articles. I could not find something for
this. Is this not possible, or am I overlooking something?

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Cecil Westerhof
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Rahul Jain

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Dec 20, 2009, 4:40:51 PM12/20/09
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Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:

> With gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable you can expire an article. I would
> like to expire the marked articles. I could not find something for
> this. Is this not possible, or am I overlooking something?

G c on the group and set the time till expiry and the action upon expiration.

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Rahul Jain
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Cecil Westerhof

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Dec 21, 2009, 6:04:18 PM12/21/09
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Rahul Jain <rj...@nyct.net> writes:

> Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
>
>> With gnus-summary-mark-as-expirable you can expire an article. I would
>> like to expire the marked articles. I could not find something for
>> this. Is this not possible, or am I overlooking something?
>
> G c on the group and set the time till expiry and the action upon expiration.

That is not what I mean. When in a group you can expire an article with
'E'. What I like to do is to mark several articles with '#' and then
expire all the articles I have marked with '#'.

Dan Christensen

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Dec 21, 2009, 11:07:58 PM12/21/09
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Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:

> That is not what I mean. When in a group you can expire an article with
> 'E'. What I like to do is to mark several articles with '#' and then
> expire all the articles I have marked with '#'.

Try `M-& E'.

M-& (translated from <escape> &) runs the command
gnus-summary-universal-argument, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
function in `gnus-sum.el'.

It is bound to M-&, <menu-bar> <Gnus> <Run command on articles...>,
<menu-bar> <Gnus> <Process Mark> <Process Mark Sets> <Run command on
marked...>.

(gnus-summary-universal-argument arg)

Perform any operation on all articles that are process/prefixed.

Dan

Cecil Westerhof

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Dec 22, 2009, 12:34:41 AM12/22/09
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Dan Christensen <j...@uwo.ca> writes:

> Cecil Westerhof <Ce...@decebal.nl> writes:
>
>> That is not what I mean. When in a group you can expire an article with
>> 'E'. What I like to do is to mark several articles with '#' and then
>> expire all the articles I have marked with '#'.
>
> Try `M-& E'.

That does what I want. Thanks.

With 'M P a' all articles are selected. Is there a way to select only
unread articles?

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