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Howard Wilson (stile@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu) wrote:
: Is there a way to mark some files as read, while leaving others unread?
: Sort of like a "Clear messages 1-100, but leave the reast alone"-type thing?

I would like to see something like this also.  Currently I hack the .newsrc
file to accomplish this.
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In article <C1ALqx.CG@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> stile@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Howard Wilson) writes:
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>Is there a way to mark some files as read, while leaving others unread?
>Sort of like a "Clear messages 1-100, but leave the reast alone"-type thing?
>This is the ONE thing I miss from rn.  Other than that, tin beats it with
>a stick.  For those that don't understand (I seem to have problems putting
>down thoughts well today) I mean the rn command "1-100j", is there a way
>do to this with TIN?

Apparently not. Or if it is, it's a major secret. I just asked that a
few days ago and no-one could answer. I have a little more hope that
this is possible in GNUS, but no-one has explained a good way to
implement it for any threaded newsreader.

With GNUS you can do it with the "&" command if you turn threading off
first, but that's not very helpful. I suppose that setting the number
of articles to view at a time would work too, and you could finish the
whole buffer, exit, and re-enter as many times as required. That's a
bit of a pain too, and requires a lot of forethought.

Wigh GNUS it should be possible to mark a region in the buffer, then
write a function or adapt an existing one (which one?) to scan through
that region and mark all the articles in it as read. For tin or some
other newsreader you should still be able to keep the idea of a start
and end point (marked by mouse click, article number, start of buffer,
current point, ...) but I have no idea how the marking as read would
get done.

I'm considering going back to old fashioned unthreaded reading, partly
because of this problem.

emailed or posted solutions are most welcome.

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stile@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Howard Wilson) writes:
: 
: Is there a way to mark some files as read, while leaving others unread?
: Sort of like a "Clear messages 1-100, but leave the reast alone"-type thing?
: This is the ONE thing I miss from rn.  Other than that, tin beats it with
: a stick.  For those that don't understand (I seem to have problems putting
: down thoughts well today) I mean the rn command "1-100j", is there a way
: do to this with TIN?

Use the 'K' command to mark the current article/thread as read. Tin does not
understand the concept of ranges and commands that can use them.

Iain