gnus: Generic Marking Commands
3.7.5 Generic Marking Commands
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Some people would like the command that ticks an article (‘!’) to go to
the next article. Others would like it to go to the next unread
article. Yet others would like it to stay on the current article. And
even though I haven’t heard of anybody wanting it to go to the previous
(unread) article, I’m sure there are people that want that as well.
Multiply these five behaviors with five different marking commands,
and you get a potentially complex set of variable to control what each
command should do.
To sidestep that mess, Gnus provides commands that do all these
different things. They can be found on the ‘M M’ map in the summary
buffer. Type ‘M M C-h’ to see them all—there are too many of them to
list in this manual.
While you can use these commands directly, most users would prefer
altering the summary mode keymap. For instance, if you would like the
‘!’ command to go to the next article instead of the next unread
article, you could say something like:
(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'my-alter-summary-map)
(defun my-alter-summary-map ()
(local-set-key "!" 'gnus-summary-put-mark-as-ticked-next))
or
(defun my-alter-summary-map ()
(local-set-key "!" "MM!n"))
Info Catalog
gnus: Setting Marks
gnus: Marking Articles
gnus: Setting Process Marks