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8. Marking Messages

VM provides a way to mark selected messages so that subsequent operations can be applied to them. This is similar to marking in other parts of Emacs, e.g., See Dired Marks: (emacs)Marks vs Flags, but arguably more powerful. For example, one can mark all messages from a particular sender and save them to a folder, or mark all messages with a particular subject and print them. One can also mark messages by searching for particular strings in their text.

To mark the current message, type M M (vm-mark-message). If you give a numeric prefix argument n, the next n-1 messages will be marked as well. A negative prefix argument means mark the previous n-1. An asterisk (‘*’) will appear to the right of the message numbers of all marked messages in the summary window.

To remove a mark from the current message, use M U (vm-unmark-message). Prefix arguments work as with vm-mark-message.

Use M m to mark all messages in the current folder; M u removes marks from all messages.

Other marking commands:

M C (vm-mark-matching-messages)

Mark all messages matched by a virtual folder selector. See section Virtual Folders.

M c (vm-unmark-matching-messages)

Unmark all messages matched by a virtual folder selector.

M T (vm-mark-thread-subtree)

Mark all messages in the thread tree rooted at current message. See section Threading.

M t (vm-unmark-thread-subtree)

Unmark all messages in the thread tree rooted at current message.

M S (vm-mark-same-subject)

Mark messages with the same subject as the current message.

M s (vm-unmark-same-subject)

Unmark messages with the same subject as the current message.

M A (vm-mark-same-author)

Mark messages with the same author as the current message.

M a (vm-unmark-same-author)

Unmark messages with the same author as the current message.

While the above commands can be used in any VM buffer, the following commands can be used in a Summary buffer to mark or unmark a region of message summary lines.

M R (vm-mark-summary-region)

Mark all messages in the current region in a Summary buffer

M r (vm-unmark-summary-region)

Unmark all messages in the current region in a Summary buffer

To apply a VM command to all marked messages you must prefix it with the key sequence M N (vm-next-command-uses-marks). The next VM command will apply to all marked messages, provided the command can be applied to such messages in a meaningful and useful way. Unfortunately, as of this writing, this mechanism works only if the next command invoked is a keyboard command. Commands invoked by M-x are unable to access the marked messages. So, to invoke a complex command, you might temporarily bind it to an unused key, e.g.,

 
M-x local-set-key C vm-forward-message-all-headers
M N C

forwards marked messages with all headers included.


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