vm-send-digest using marks (not working?)

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 20:37

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David S. Browning writes:
 > Using VM 5.32 (beta) in Epoch 4.0 Patchlevel 1
 > 
 > Inspired by the discussions about what headers to forward, I thought
 > I'd try a feature of vm that I hadn't used before -- vm-send-digest.
 > 
 > I didn't want to send the whole folder, just marked messages.  So I
 > visited two messages, typed
 > 
 > M-x vm-mark-message
 > 
 > at each, and they got marked with an "*" in the summary buffer.  Then
 > I typed
 > 
 > M-x vm-next-command-uses-marks
 > M-x vm-send-digest
 > 
 > Aargh!  The whole folder was digestified.
 > 
 > What did I do wrong?  Is this broken?

No, once you ran vm-next-command-uses-marks the next command was
self-insert-command.  Apparently execute-extended-command doesn't
reset last-command.  I'm not actually sure that it should.

Invoke the command via the assocaited key bindings and
vm-next-command-uses-marks should work.

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Subject: vm-send-digest using marks (not working?)
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