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Setting Process Marks ​

Process marks are displayed as # in the summary buffer, and are used for marking articles in such a way that other commands will process these articles. For instance, if you process mark four articles and then use the * command, Gnus will enter these four articles into the cache. For more information, see Process/Prefix.

M P p ​

# ​

Toggle the process mark for the current article (gnus-summary-mark-as-processable).
If gnus-process-mark-toggle is nil, set the process mark for the current article.

M P u ​

M-# ​

Remove the process mark, if any, from the current article (gnus-summary-unmark-as-processable).

M P U ​

Remove the process mark from all articles (gnus-summary-unmark-all-processable).

M P i ​

Invert the list of process marked articles (gnus-uu-invert-processable).

M P R ​

Mark articles that have a Subject header that matches a regular expression (gnus-uu-mark-by-regexp).

M P G ​

Unmark articles that have a Subject header that matches a regular expression (gnus-uu-unmark-by-regexp).

M P r ​

Mark articles in region (gnus-uu-mark-region).

M P g ​

Unmark articles in region (gnus-uu-unmark-region).

M P t ​

Mark all articles in the current (sub)thread (gnus-uu-mark-thread).

M P T ​

Unmark all articles in the current (sub)thread (gnus-uu-unmark-thread).

M P v ​

Mark all articles that have a score above the prefix argument (gnus-uu-mark-over).

M P s ​

Mark all articles in the current series (gnus-uu-mark-series).

M P S ​

Mark all series that have already had some articles marked (gnus-uu-mark-sparse).

M P a ​

Mark all articles in series order (gnus-uu-mark-all).

M P b ​

Mark all articles in the buffer in the order they appear (gnus-uu-mark-buffer).

M P k ​

Push the current process mark set onto the stack and unmark all articles (gnus-summary-kill-process-mark).

M P y ​

Pop the previous process mark set from the stack and restore it (gnus-summary-yank-process-mark).

M P w ​

Push the current process mark set onto the stack (gnus-summary-save-process-mark).

Also see the & command in Searching for Articles, for how to set process marks based on article body contents.