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gnus: Other Marks

 
 3.7.3 Other Marks
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 There are some marks that have nothing to do with whether the article is
 read or not.
 
    • You can set a bookmark in the current article.  Say you are reading
      a long thesis on cats’ urinary tracts, and have to go home for
      dinner before you’ve finished reading the thesis.  You can then set
      a bookmark in the article, and Gnus will jump to this bookmark the
      next time it encounters the article.  Setting Marks.
 
    • All articles that you have replied to or made a followup to (i.e.,
      have answered) will be marked with an ‘A’ in the second column
      (‘gnus-replied-mark’).
 
    • All articles that you have forwarded will be marked with an ‘F’ in
      the second column (‘gnus-forwarded-mark’).
 
    • Articles stored in the article cache will be marked with an ‘*’ in
      the second column (‘gnus-cached-mark’).  Article Caching.
 
    • Articles “saved” (in some manner or other; not necessarily
      religiously) are marked with an ‘S’ in the second column
      (‘gnus-saved-mark’).
 
    • Articles that haven’t been seen before in Gnus by the user are
      marked with a ‘.’ in the second column (‘gnus-unseen-mark’).
 
    • When using the Gnus agent (Agent Basics), articles may be
      downloaded for unplugged (offline) viewing.  If you are using the
      ‘%O’ spec, these articles get the ‘+’ mark in that spec.  (The
      variable ‘gnus-downloaded-mark’ controls which character to use.)
 
    • When using the Gnus agent (Agent Basics), some articles
      might not have been downloaded.  Such articles cannot be viewed
      while you are unplugged (offline).  If you are using the ‘%O’ spec,
      these articles get the ‘-’ mark in that spec.  (The variable
      ‘gnus-undownloaded-mark’ controls which character to use.)
 
    • The Gnus agent (Agent Basics) downloads some articles
      automatically, but it is also possible to explicitly mark articles
      for download, even if they would not be downloaded automatically.
      Such explicitly-marked articles get the ‘%’ mark in the first
      column.  (The variable ‘gnus-downloadable-mark’ controls which
      character to use.)
 
    • If the ‘%e’ spec is used, the presence of threads or not will be
      marked with ‘gnus-not-empty-thread-mark’ and
      ‘gnus-empty-thread-mark’ in the third column, respectively.
 
    • Finally we have the “process mark” (‘gnus-process-mark’).  A
      variety of commands react to the presence of the process mark.  For
      instance, ‘X u’ (‘gnus-uu-decode-uu’) will uudecode and view all
      articles that have been marked with the process mark.  Articles
      marked with the process mark have a ‘#’ in the second column.
 
    You might have noticed that most of these “non-readedness” marks
 appear in the second column by default.  So if you have a cached, saved,
 replied article that you have process-marked, what will that look like?
 
    Nothing much.  The precedence rules go as follows: process -> cache
 -> replied -> saved.  So if the article is in the cache and is replied,
 you’ll only see the cache mark and not the replied mark.
 

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