mh-e: Navigating
6.8 Navigating
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To move on to the next message, use the command ‘n’
(‘mh-next-undeleted-msg’); use ‘p’ (‘mh-previous-undeleted-msg’) to read
the previous message. To move to the next unread message, use ‘M-n’
(‘mh-next-unread-msg’); use ‘M-p’ (‘mh-previous-unread-msg’) to move to
the previous unread message. These commands can be given a prefix
argument to specify how many messages to skip (for example, ‘5 n’). You
can also move to a specific message with ‘g’ (‘mh-goto-msg’). You can
enter the message number either before or after typing ‘g’. In the
latter case, Emacs prompts you. Finally, you can go to the first or
last message with ‘M-<’ (‘mh-first-msg’) and ‘M->’ (‘mh-last-msg’)
respectively.
You can also use the Emacs commands ‘C-p’ (‘previous-line’) and ‘C-n’
(‘next-line’) to move up and down the scan lines in the MH-Folder
window. These commands can be used in conjunction with <RET> to look at
deleted or refiled messages.
To mark a message for deletion, use the command ‘d’
(‘mh-delete-msg’). A ‘D’ is placed by the message in the scan window,
and the next undeleted message is displayed. If the previous command
had been ‘p’, then the next message displayed is the first undeleted
message previous to the message just deleted. Use ‘n’ to force
subsequent ‘d’ commands to move forward to the next undeleted message
after deleting the message under the cursor. You may also specify a
range (for example, ‘C-u d 1 3 5-7 last:5 frombob <RET>’, 
Ranges).
The command ‘C-d’ (‘mh-delete-msg-no-motion’) marks the message (or
messages in range) for deletion but leaves the cursor at the current
message in case you wish to perform other operations on the message.
And to delete more messages faster, you can use ‘k’
(‘mh-delete-subject-or-thread’) to delete all the messages with the same
subject as the current message. This command puts these messages in a
sequence named ‘subject’. You can undo this action by using ‘u’
(‘mh-undo’) with a prefix argument and then specifying the ‘subject’
sequence. However, if the buffer is displaying a threaded view of the
folder then ‘k’ behaves like ‘T d’ (‘mh-thread-delete’).
Threading.
However you mark a message for deletion, the command ‘x’
(‘mh-execute-commands’) actually carries out the deletion (
Folders).
The hook ‘mh-delete-msg-hook’ is called after you mark a message for
deletion. For example, a past maintainer of MH-E used this once when he
kept statistics on his mail usage.
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mh-e: Miscellaneous Commands and Options